HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080439370
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
764,9km²
Upstream area
186 054,1km²
Discharge
3 445,99m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu2600 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé do Trairão1604 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 761.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kayapó
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
459.79 km² overlap
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
253.55 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.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,2°C
Annual rain
2 129mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
612mm/an
PET
1 912mm
AET
1 374mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
190cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)