HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080441870
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 : Cumaru do Norte, São Félix do Xingu
Sub-basin area
2 600km²
Upstream area
183 685km²
Discharge
3 391,49m³/s
Mean elev.
310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio da Paz2276 km²
- Bassin de Rio Capivara44 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2586.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1267.66 km² overlap
Badjonkore
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1193.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
2 063mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
586mm/an
PET
1 918mm
AET
1 367mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
189cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)