HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081502180
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, Makoni, Mutare
Sub-basin area
101,9km²
Upstream area
11 195,3km²
Discharge
47,37m³/s
Mean elev.
846m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save721 km²
- Bassin de Save130 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.2 km²74.0% of basin
- 26.1 km²25.7% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.3% 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
638mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
136mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
538mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
408cm
Forest
18%
Crops
9%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)