HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080895990
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 : Krachi Nchumuru, Sene East, Sene West
Sub-basin area
1 479,2km²
Upstream area
1 479,3km²
Discharge
8,68m³/s
Mean elev.
114m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 951.5 km²64.6% of basin
- 521.4 km²35.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 74 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 249mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 824mm
AET
1 050mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
110cm
Forest
28%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)