HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080242500
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
99,9km²
Upstream area
512 178,8km²
Discharge
9 978,75m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Majari1040 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu79 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 97.9 km²98.5% of basin
- 1.5 km²1.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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 340mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 005mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 397mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
31cm
Forest
60%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)