HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080346900
Bassin de Rio Piranhas
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
2 651,5km²
Upstream area
2 651,9km²
Discharge
45,15m³/s
Mean elev.
236m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2640.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Apyterewa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
2289.09 km² overlap
Araweté Igarapé Ipixuna
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
542mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
122cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)