HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080487440
Bassin de Rio Comandante Fontoura
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 : Confresa, Santa Cruz do Xingu
Sub-basin area
91,5km²
Upstream area
7 461,1km²
Discharge
122,04m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Comandante Fontoura1766 km²
- Bassin de Córrego do Pedro753 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 53.0 km²58.2% of basin
- 38.1 km²41.8% of basin
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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 951mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
548mm/an
PET
1 941mm
AET
1 339mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
58cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)