HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081502730
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, Mutare
Sub-basin area
44,9km²
Upstream area
13 881km²
Discharge
56,41m³/s
Mean elev.
823m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mwerahari River2641 km²
- Bassin de Save102 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.0 km²87.1% of basin
- 5.8 km²12.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
618mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
136mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
521mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
328cm
Forest
2%
Crops
6%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)