Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081491640

Bassin de Gweru

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 South, Nkayi

Pfafstetter: 12278904

Sub-basin area

236,7km²

Upstream area

236,8km²

Discharge

0,43m³/s

Mean elev.

1 175m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Gweru380 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Mafungabusi

    IUCN Not Reported

    State Forest

    14.47 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,2°C

Annual rain

689mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,59

Runoff

57mm/an

PET

1 674mm

AET

582mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

383cm

Forest

18%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

6%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)