HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081454430
Bassin de Zambeze
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 : Chemba, Mutarara, Tambara
Sub-basin area
610,9km²
Upstream area
1 187 163,3km²
Discharge
3 123,76m³/s
Mean elev.
172m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambeze560 km²
- Bassin de Rio Muira36 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TambaraManica · Mozambique568.5 km²93.4% of basin
- 39.7 km²6.5% of basin
- Chemba0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº7
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
433.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 31 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,7°C
Annual rain
715mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
105mm/an
PET
1 877mm
AET
603mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
146cm
Forest
16%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)