HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080290040
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 4 administrative regions : Altamira, Brasil Novo, Senador José Porfírio, Vitória do Xingu
Sub-basin area
2 126km²
Upstream area
450 372,3km²
Discharge
8 369m³/s
Mean elev.
138m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu572 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu387 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1647.0 km²77.8% of basin
- 458.7 km²21.7% of basin
- 8.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 635 distinct species · 7 503 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Xingu : 26 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 926mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
916mm/an
PET
1 640mm
AET
1 205mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
123cm
Forest
50%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)