HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080345820
Bassin de Rio Pacajá
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 : São Félix do Xingu
Sub-basin area
34,5km²
Upstream area
4 665,6km²
Discharge
77,95m³/s
Mean elev.
181m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piranhas2652 km²
- Bassin de Rio Pacajá1979 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 34.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Apyterewa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
22.20 km² overlap
Trincheira Bacaja
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 827mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
504mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
1 254mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
81cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
65%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)