HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081499890
Bassin de Save
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 : Buhera, Hwedza
Sub-basin area
555km²
Upstream area
3 636,7km²
Discharge
10,75m³/s
Mean elev.
942m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save664 km²
- Bassin de Save289 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.4 km²59.3% of basin
- 225.0 km²40.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 166 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
674mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 677mm
AET
569mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
298cm
Forest
17%
Crops
7%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)