HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081533930
Bassin de Mzingwane
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 1 administrative regions : Gwanda
Sub-basin area
235,3km²
Upstream area
8 017,4km²
Discharge
9,45m³/s
Mean elev.
840m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mzingwane344 km²
- Bassin de Mzingwane316 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 234.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 17 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
465mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
235cm
Forest
52%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)