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
426 distinct species · 1 116 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Mutirikwe : 39 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
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)