HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080242290
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
40,5km²
Upstream area
512 531,6km²
Discharge
9 991,03m³/s
Mean elev.
10m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu313 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu100 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.6 km²58.5% of basin
- 16.7 km²41.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 66 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 357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 051mm/an
PET
1 692mm
AET
1 410mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
29cm
Forest
37%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)