HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081521570
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 4 administrative regions : Bikita, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Chipinge Urban
Sub-basin area
2 405,5km²
Upstream area
35 702,1km²
Discharge
200,35m³/s
Mean elev.
685m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save893 km²
- Bassin de Devure736 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1413.1 km²58.9% of basin
- 917.4 km²38.2% of basin
- 67.7 km²2.8% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Save Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
1144.14 km² overlap
Chipinge
IUCN VISafari Area
155.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 036 distinct species · 16 241 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Save : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 0 bulles famille, 8 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,1°C
Annual rain
613mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
509mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
309cm
Forest
80%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)