HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080401010
Bassin de Igarapé Fortaleza Grande
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
2 295,9km²
Upstream area
202 459,5km²
Discharge
3 705,69m³/s
Mean elev.
344m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé do Tadeu1905 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu80 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2286.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kayapó
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
2286.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
2 041mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
658mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
1 346mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
298cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)