HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080893840
Bassin de 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 3 administrative regions : North East Gonja, Pru East, Sene West
Sub-basin area
710,1km²
Upstream area
275 062,6km²
Discharge
688,4m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 211mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
162mm/an
PET
1 841mm
AET
1 012mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
98cm
Forest
46%
Crops
30%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)