HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080954990
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 : Kwahu Afram Plains North, North Dayi, South Dayi
Sub-basin area
136,3km²
Upstream area
389 290,5km²
Discharge
1 384,71m³/s
Mean elev.
101m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080950210837 km²
- Bassin de Volta78 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 70.7 km²52.1% of basin
- 51.4 km²37.9% of basin
- 13.6 km²10.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kpandu Range West
IUCN VIForest Reserve
5.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 771mm
AET
1 136mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
187cm
Forest
15%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)