HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081536580
Bassin de Rio 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Chipinge, Machaze, Massangena
Sub-basin area
222,2km²
Upstream area
85 505,9km²
Discharge
397,97m³/s
Mean elev.
197m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081535080395 km²
- Bassin de Rio Save60 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Massangena140.8 km²63.5% of basin
- MachazeManica · Mozambique80.4 km²36.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mahenye
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
2.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
570mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
85mm/an
PET
1 816mm
AET
479mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
278cm
Forest
57%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)