HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080899610
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, Krachi West, Sene East
Sub-basin area
353,7km²
Upstream area
294 557km²
Discharge
791,51m³/s
Mean elev.
99m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta1479 km²
- Bassin de Monkorobon44 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 184.7 km²52.4% of basin
- 167.6 km²47.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 29 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 837mm
AET
1 045mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
126cm
Forest
26%
Crops
39%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)