HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081532310
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, Mwenezi
Sub-basin area
1 449,5km²
Upstream area
8 061,6km²
Discharge
30,14m³/s
Mean elev.
471m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mutirikwe696 km²
- Bassin de Mutirikwe317 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1195.6 km²82.7% of basin
- 249.9 km²17.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chiredzi River Conservancy
IUCN Not ReportedSanctuary
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
606mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
511mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
255cm
Forest
93%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)