HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080490040
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, São José do Xingu
Sub-basin area
1 059,9km²
Upstream area
141 648,7km²
Discharge
2 573,47m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu239 km²
- Bassin · #60804991708 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 565.4 km²53.6% of basin
- 490.2 km²46.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Capoto/Jarina
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1042.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 12 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 264mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
740mm/an
PET
1 960mm
AET
1 399mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
75cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)