HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080419030
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
79,8km²
Upstream area
196 118,4km²
Discharge
3 659,09m³/s
Mean elev.
298m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé do Capim Grande639 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu552 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
68.89 km² overlap
Kayapó
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
5.23 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
2 116mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
648mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
1 367mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
308cm
Forest
84%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)