HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080419710
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
552,4km²
Upstream area
195 400,2km²
Discharge
3 646,57m³/s
Mean elev.
288m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu2601 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé do José Bispo1229 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 550.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
329.59 km² overlap
Kayapó
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
160.63 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
2 145mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
643mm/an
PET
1 900mm
AET
1 373mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
213cm
Forest
79%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)