HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080239820
Bassin de Rio Xingu
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 : Gurupá, Porto de Moz
Sub-basin area
235,3km²
Upstream area
513 313,5km²
Discharge
10 022,54m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080242430546 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 233.5 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 22 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 099mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
1 422mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
27cm
Forest
66%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)