HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080489030
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 3 administrative regions : Peixoto de Azevedo, Santa Cruz do Xingu, São José do Xingu
Sub-basin area
55,1km²
Upstream area
144 550,1km²
Discharge
2 635,32m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paturi2846 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu1060 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.5 km²64.7% of basin
- 19.3 km²35.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Capoto/Jarina
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
54.87 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
2 237mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
745mm/an
PET
1 962mm
AET
1 401mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
33cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)