HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080981750
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 : Ada East, Ada West, South Tongu
Sub-basin area
131,3km²
Upstream area
409 209,2km²
Discharge
989,29m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta408 km²
- Bassin · #1080980120305 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.5 km²60.8% of basin
- 50.6 km²38.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Songor Ramsar Site
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
101.73 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
66 distinct species · 112 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Volta : 16 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,0°C
Annual rain
911mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
142mm/an
PET
1 478mm
AET
772mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
39cm
Forest
10%
Crops
84%
Urban
13%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)