HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081538250
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 : Mabote, Machaze, Massangena
Sub-basin area
218,2km²
Upstream area
90 942km²
Discharge
409,94m³/s
Mean elev.
122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Save602 km²
- Bassin de Rio Save557 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Massangena86.5 km²39.7% of basin
- Mabote71.3 km²32.8% of basin
- MachazeManica · Mozambique59.9 km²27.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº4
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
50.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 790mm
AET
543mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
105cm
Forest
69%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)