HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081474170
Bassin de Nyaruwakwa River
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 across 2 countries : Barue, Nyanga
Sub-basin area
244,1km²
Upstream area
1 326,6km²
Discharge
21,86m³/s
Mean elev.
1 044m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gaerezi889 km²
- Bassin · #1081476900193 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 197.5 km²81.2% of basin
- BarueManica · Mozambique43.2 km²17.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 27 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 083mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
452mm/an
PET
1 505mm
AET
853mm
Mean slope
9,4°
Water table
480cm
Forest
90%
Crops
10%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)