HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081525860
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 3 administrative regions : Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zaka
Sub-basin area
316,6km²
Upstream area
5 916km²
Discharge
23,6m³/s
Mean elev.
633m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tetenu River299 km²
- Bassin de Mutirikwe268 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.5 km²84.4% of basin
- 49.1 km²15.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bangala
IUCN VRecreation Park
43.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 9 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
100mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
574mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
552cm
Forest
93%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)