HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081513250
Bassin · #1081513250
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 4 administrative regions : Chirumhanzu, Chivi, Masvingo, Shurugwi
Sub-basin area
1 183,4km²
Upstream area
1 183,5km²
Discharge
4,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 202m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 665.2 km²56.4% of basin
- 421.2 km²35.7% of basin
- 93.2 km²7.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Driefontein Grasslands
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
19.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 164 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,8°C
Annual rain
666mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
1 578mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
270cm
Forest
17%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)