HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081528880
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 2 administrative regions : Chipinge, Chiredzi
Sub-basin area
695,6km²
Upstream area
40 488,2km²
Discharge
217,85m³/s
Mean elev.
442m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Save316 km²
- Bassin de Save107 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 448.2 km²64.6% of basin
- 245.4 km²35.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Save Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
269.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
355 distinct species · 1 544 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) + 2 bulles famille, 16 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,1°C
Annual rain
580mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
489mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
228cm
Forest
44%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)