HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081493620
Bassin de Shangani 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 1 administrative regions : Nkayi
Sub-basin area
670,5km²
Upstream area
11 547,6km²
Discharge
18,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 085m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shangani River1352 km²
- Bassin de Gweru380 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 668.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 36 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
642mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
541mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
334cm
Forest
6%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)