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Volta Basin Facts
Basin Area: 411203 411,203 km²
158,724.358 mi² km2
Average Discharge: 33748.78533,748.785 m³/s
1,191,827.094 cfs
1,065.01 km³/y m3/s
Type:watershed or basin, river or creek
Includes Riparians: Burkina Faso;
Benin;
Ivory Coast;
Ghana;
Mali;
Togo;
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The Volta Basin is located in Western Africa.
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Located in this basin- Ivory Coast Other - Burkina Faso |
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Facts about Included Riparians
| Riparian | Population in Basin | Area within Basin in sq. km | Irrigated Lands within Basin in sq km | Average Discharge in cubic m per second |
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| Ivory Coast | 0.288 million287,700 people | 13,363 km²5,159.483 mi² | 0 km²0 mi² | 63.378 m³/s2,238.173 cfs 2 km³/y |
| Burkina Faso | 11.159 million11,159,000 people | 173,141 km²66,850.114 mi² | 0 km²0 mi² | |
| Togo | 1.839 million1,839,000 people | 25,845 km²9,978.81 mi² | 0 km²0 mi² | 1,584.45 m³/s55,954.324 cfs 50 km³/y |
| Ghana | 8.286 million8,286,000 people | 165,106 km²63,747.783 mi² | 1,700 km²656.374 mi² | 31,689 m³/s1,119,086.473 cfs 1,000.01 km³/y |
| Benin | 0.601 million601,100 people | 14,996 km²5,789.988 mi² | 200 km²77.22 mi² | 316.89 m³/s11,190.865 cfs 10 km³/y |
| Mali | 0.622 million621,700 people | 18,752 km²7,240.188 mi² | 0 km²0 mi² | 95.067 m³/s3,357.259 cfs 3 km³/y |
- ^ Oregon State University.Transboundary Freshwater Spatial Database Entry for "Volta Basin" Accessed August 15 2014 online:http://ocid.nacse.org/tfdd/map/result.php?bcode=VOLT
