HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080933920
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 6 administrative regions : Biakoye, Hohoe, Jasikan, Kadjebi, Kwahu Afram Plains North +1
Sub-basin area
1 143,8km²
Upstream area
384 110,7km²
Discharge
1 366,5m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 457mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
348mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
1 212mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
248cm
Forest
45%
Crops
61%
Urban
3%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)