HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081491690
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 3 administrative regions : Gokwe South, Kwekwe, Nkayi
Sub-basin area
578,2km²
Upstream area
578,2km²
Discharge
1,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 185m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.6 km²48.7% of basin
- 154.8 km²26.8% of basin
- 141.1 km²24.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mafungabusi
IUCN Not ReportedState Forest
4.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
693mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
1 659mm
AET
585mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
382cm
Forest
22%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)