Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080427170

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 2 administrative regions : Altamira, São Félix do Xingu

Pfafstetter: 62225190

Sub-basin area

2 601,4km²

Upstream area

193 619,3km²

Discharge

3 622,15m³/s

Mean elev.

297m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Xingu552 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Menkragnotí

    IUCN Not Reported

    Indigenous Area

    1810.90 km² overlap

  • Kayapó

    IUCN Not Reported

    Indigenous Area

    655.98 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 171mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,12

Runoff

649mm/an

PET

1 911mm

AET

1 381mm

Mean slope

3,3°

Water table

152cm

Forest

93%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

95%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)