HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080374260
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
149,3km²
Upstream area
258 928,2km²
Discharge
4 727,98m³/s
Mean elev.
211m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu457 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu350 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 148.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
34.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
625mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
1 364mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
109cm
Forest
74%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)