HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081520590
Bassin de Turgwi 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 2 administrative regions : Bikita, Chiredzi
Sub-basin area
19,4km²
Upstream area
2 195km²
Discharge
8,42m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mokore River482 km²
- Bassin de Turgwi River172 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 13.5 km²69.6% of basin
- 5.9 km²30.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Save Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
19.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
273 distinct species · 800 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Turgwi River : 23 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,0°C
Annual rain
525mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 770mm
AET
443mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
233cm
Forest
99%
Crops
27%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)