HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081523990
Bassin de Mutirikwe
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 : Masvingo, Zaka
Sub-basin area
268,2km²
Upstream area
5 300,1km²
Discharge
21,59m³/s
Mean elev.
682m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mutirikwi556 km²
- Bassin de Mutirikwi536 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 198.4 km²74.2% of basin
- 69.0 km²25.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
785mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
112mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
664mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
374cm
Forest
48%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)