HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080480830
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 : Peixoto de Azevedo, Santa Cruz do Xingu
Sub-basin area
284,6km²
Upstream area
151 945,9km²
Discharge
2 813,74m³/s
Mean elev.
300m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu531 km²
- Bassin · #608048412027 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 173.7 km²61.3% of basin
- 109.8 km²38.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Capoto/Jarina
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
182.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
2 225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
759mm/an
PET
1 954mm
AET
1 399mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
110cm
Forest
86%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
64%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)