HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080393010
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
161,3km²
Upstream area
208 337,7km²
Discharge
3 802m³/s
Mean elev.
241m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu544 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu6 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
6.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
2 082mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
615mm/an
PET
1 870mm
AET
1 335mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
174cm
Forest
76%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)