Key facts
- Countries
- Ghana and Burkina Faso
- Mouth
- Volta River
- Location
- Lake Volta
- Length
- 885 km (550 mi)
- Basin size
- 117,200 km (45,300 sq mi)
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- White Volta
- mouth of the watercourse
- Lake Volta
- watershed area
- 400000
- discharge
- 249.0
- tributary
- Red Volta
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Encyclopedic overview
The White Volta or Nakambé (French: Volta blanche) is the headstream of the Volta River, Ghana's main waterway. The White Volta emerges in northern Burkina Faso, flows through Northern Ghana and empties into Lake Volta in Ghana. The White Volta's main tributaries are the Black Volta and the Red Volta.
Course and basin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White Volta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.