HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081523200
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 3 administrative regions : Bikita, Chipinge, Chiredzi
Sub-basin area
105km²
Upstream area
38 837,6km²
Discharge
211,55m³/s
Mean elev.
443m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save2406 km²
- Bassin de Turgwi River144 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.4 km²76.8% of basin
- 24.2 km²23.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Save Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
78.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
320 distinct species · 1 260 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
508mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 783mm
AET
428mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
77cm
Forest
96%
Crops
14%
Urban
7%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)