HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081499790
Bassin de Macheke
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 : Buhera, Hwedza, Makoni
Sub-basin area
80,2km²
Upstream area
6 606,3km²
Discharge
32,64m³/s
Mean elev.
864m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Macheke614 km²
- Bassin de Macheke411 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 61.8 km²77.3% of basin
- 18.1 km²22.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,2°C
Annual rain
672mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 714mm
AET
567mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
159cm
Forest
1%
Crops
6%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)