HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081550070
Bassin de Limpopo
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 1 administrative regions : Chiredzi
Sub-basin area
342,3km²
Upstream area
342,4km²
Discharge
0,51m³/s
Mean elev.
359m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 intersecting protected areas
Sengwe
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
334.91 km² overlap
Maose-Xini
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
6.40 km² overlap
Chibavahlengwe
IUCN Not ReportedWildlife Management Area
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
646 distinct species · 12 192 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,7°C
Annual rain
480mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 827mm
AET
404mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
483cm
Forest
96%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)