HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080910430
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 2 administrative regions : Krachi West, Sene East
Sub-basin area
215,9km²
Upstream area
5 060,5km²
Discharge
35,8m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10809134102385 km²
- Bassin · #1080913220255 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 207.7 km²96.6% of basin
- 7.3 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Digya
IUCN IINational Park
58.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 21 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 309mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
1 827mm
AET
1 100mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
73cm
Forest
31%
Crops
46%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)