HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080939890
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 1 administrative regions : Kwahu Afram Plains North
Sub-basin area
245,2km²
Upstream area
387 398,5km²
Discharge
1 387,75m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta1144 km²
- Bassin · #1080934080725 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 244.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 23 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
285mm/an
PET
1 801mm
AET
1 154mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
49cm
Forest
15%
Crops
44%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)