HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080484220
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
530,9km²
Upstream area
145 686,8km²
Discharge
2 661,69m³/s
Mean elev.
298m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu605 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu55 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 321.7 km²60.8% of basin
- 207.1 km²39.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Capoto/Jarina
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
412.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 17 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 231mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
749mm/an
PET
1 956mm
AET
1 399mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
48cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)