HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080471240
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
232,1km²
Upstream area
158 642,7km²
Discharge
2 963,39m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu1293 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu170 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 231.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Menkragnotí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
218.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 065mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
1 936mm
AET
1 374mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
164cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)