HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080949970
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 : Kwahu Afram Plains North, North Dayi
Sub-basin area
77,9km²
Upstream area
388 317,8km²
Discharge
1 382,98m³/s
Mean elev.
102m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta322 km²
- Bassin de Volta312 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.7 km²97.6% of basin
- 1.9 km²2.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
261mm/an
PET
1 778mm
AET
1 154mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
153cm
Forest
15%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)