HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081528940
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, Chipinge, Chiredzi, Zaka
Sub-basin area
1 626,6km²
Upstream area
1 626,6km²
Discharge
5,11m³/s
Mean elev.
506m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1416.9 km²87.4% of basin
- 133.6 km²8.2% of basin
- 71.5 km²4.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Save Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
965.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
903 distinct species · 3 181 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,8°C
Annual rain
630mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
99mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
532mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
250cm
Forest
84%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)