HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080893700
Bassin de Black Volta
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 6 administrative regions : Bole, Kintampo North, Kintampo South, Nkoranza North, Techiman North +1
Sub-basin area
796,8km²
Upstream area
139 722,6km²
Discharge
342,98m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
232mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
1 039mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
180cm
Forest
92%
Crops
42%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)