HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081503150
Bassin · #1081503150
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 1 administrative regions : Hwange
Sub-basin area
48,8km²
Upstream area
3 089,9km²
Discharge
0,75m³/s
Mean elev.
982m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081502040521 km²
- Bassin · #108150193079 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 48.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hwange
IUCN IINational Park
48.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 58 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
490mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 813mm
AET
413mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
23cm
Forest
88%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)