HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080980110
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 5 administrative regions : Ada East, Ada West, Central Tongu, North Tongu, South Tongu
Sub-basin area
407,8km²
Upstream area
408 773,3km²
Discharge
994,59m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 572mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
47cm
Forest
8%
Crops
38%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)