HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081469000
Bassin de Sessami
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 2 administrative regions : Gokwe North, Gokwe South
Sub-basin area
887,1km²
Upstream area
2 859,8km²
Discharge
5,52m³/s
Mean elev.
777m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sessami1216 km²
- Bassin de Sessami275 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 509.9 km²57.7% of basin
- 374.3 km²42.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Chirisa
IUCN VISafari Area
344.36 km² overlap
Madzivazvido
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
313.97 km² overlap
Nenyunka
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
63.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,9°C
Annual rain
706mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
595mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
247cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
80%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)