Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081546480

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 2 administrative regions : Beitbridge, Gwanda

18% lakePfafstetter: 12450830

Sub-basin area

1 096,7km²

Upstream area

13 825km²

Discharge

13,21m³/s

Mean elev.

596m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Mzingwane206 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Machuchuta

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    70.57 km² overlap

  • Mtetengwe 3

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    40.47 km² overlap

  • Hwali

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    3.34 km² overlap

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

Species present

78 distinct species · 582 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

582 obs · 22 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 78
61–77
27–60
22–26
< 22

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°

22,1°C

Annual rain

355mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,80

Runoff

15mm/an

PET

1 784mm

AET

298mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

321cm

Forest

10%

Crops

9%

Urban

0%

Protected

10%

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