HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080358740
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
69,1km²
Upstream area
273 221,1km²
Discharge
4 999,92m³/s
Mean elev.
202m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu2288 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé São Sebastião1873 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 68.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Apyterewa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
56.47 km² overlap
Park
4.12 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 878mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
591mm/an
PET
1 792mm
AET
1 316mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
97cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)