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
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°
27,0°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)