HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081505550
Bassin de Umguza River
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 : Lupane, Tsholotsho, Umguza
Sub-basin area
1 009,8km²
Upstream area
3 038,7km²
Discharge
3,12m³/s
Mean elev.
1 125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Umguza River196 km²
- Bassin de Umguza River131 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 969.0 km²96.3% of basin
- 37.2 km²3.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Umgusa
IUCN Not ReportedState Forest
148.43 km² overlap
Inseze
IUCN Not ReportedState Forest
54.93 km² overlap
Gwayi
IUCN Not ReportedState Forest
36.95 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZWE) No.1
IUCN Not ReportedState Forest
6.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
895 distinct species · 2 731 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,3°C
Annual rain
572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
482mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
375cm
Forest
62%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)