HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081538080
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
Sub-basin area
601,5km²
Upstream area
90 166,9km²
Discharge
408,07m³/s
Mean elev.
143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Vumaóze1408 km²
- Bassin de Rio Save294 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Massangena323.9 km²54.0% of basin
- MachazeManica · Mozambique276.0 km²46.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº4
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
270.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
113 distinct species · 249 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Rio Save : 19 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
635mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
102mm/an
PET
1 807mm
AET
535mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
162cm
Forest
43%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)