HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080357420
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
44,7km²
Upstream area
273 530,8km²
Discharge
5 005,68m³/s
Mean elev.
193m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu265 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu69 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Park
28.33 km² overlap
Apyterewa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
8.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
58 distinct species · 130 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 873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
589mm/an
PET
1 791mm
AET
1 312mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
89cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)