HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081500630
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 3 administrative regions : Buhera, Hwedza, Makoni
Sub-basin area
129,5km²
Upstream area
10 372,5km²
Discharge
43,31m³/s
Mean elev.
862m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save555 km²
- Bassin de Macheke80 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.4 km²73.8% of basin
- 33.7 km²26.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
646mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
130mm/an
PET
1 718mm
AET
545mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
268cm
Forest
6%
Crops
19%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)