HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080394610
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
329,4km²
Upstream area
206 848,5km²
Discharge
3 774,3m³/s
Mean elev.
255m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080398450373 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu201 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
190.75 km² overlap
Kayapó
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
12.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
2 032mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
653mm/an
PET
1 865mm
AET
1 341mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
246cm
Forest
84%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)