HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081465730
Bassin de Rwenya
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 4 administrative regions : Makoni, Mudzi, Mutoko, Nyanga
Sub-basin area
803,3km²
Upstream area
7 255,5km²
Discharge
78,16m³/s
Mean elev.
928m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de rwenya river2035 km²
- Bassin de Nyangombe168 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.9 km²76.0% of basin
- 147.1 km²18.4% of basin
- 44.7 km²5.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 10 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
309mm/an
PET
1 590mm
AET
587mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
557cm
Forest
16%
Crops
5%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)