HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080354560
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 1 administrative regions : São Félix do Xingu
Sub-basin area
97,5km²
Upstream area
276 743,9km²
Discharge
5 066,74m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé do Pontal3115 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu45 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 97.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Park
56.09 km² overlap
Apyterewa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
9.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 44 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 858mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
581mm/an
PET
1 785mm
AET
1 297mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
76cm
Forest
81%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)