Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081537910

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 2 administrative regions : Machaze, Massangena

Pfafstetter: 12306178

Sub-basin area

556,6km²

Upstream area

556,6km²

Discharge

2,06m³/s

Mean elev.

225m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Save218 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Nº4

    IUCN VI

    Hunting Reserve

    446.82 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,6°C

Annual rain

698mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,60

Runoff

117mm/an

PET

1 760mm

AET

589mm

Mean slope

0,8°

Water table

368cm

Forest

92%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

84%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)