Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #179153

Higa

Natural lakeBurkina FasoAfrica 261 m

Surface area

2,8km²

Avg depth

1,7m

Volume

4,72km³

Shoreline

14,2km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-1080680910375 km² · upstream 375 km²

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Yagha
    Sahel · Burkina Faso
    2.79 km²
    100.0% of lake

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Lac Higa

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    2.79 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

13 distinct species · 15 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

15 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 15
15–14
15–14
15–14
< 15

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

2,80km²

Avg depth

1,7m

Volume

4,720km³

Watershed

97km²

Shoreline

14,2km

Shore dev. idx

2,39

Residence time

2 875days

Elevation

261m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.