HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080470840
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
58,9km²
Upstream area
172 327,3km²
Discharge
3 184,87m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Comandante Fontoura1771 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu232 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
33.09 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 038mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
566mm/an
PET
1 943mm
AET
1 370mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
45cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)