HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080506430
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 : Feliz Natal, Marcelândia, São Félix do Araguaia
Sub-basin area
526,2km²
Upstream area
103 919,9km²
Discharge
1 758,17m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Xingu1354 km²
- Bassin de Rio Suiá-Miçu776 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 336.1 km²64.1% of basin
- 188.0 km²35.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Parque do Xingu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
524.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 35 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
2 240mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
687mm/an
PET
1 965mm
AET
1 381mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
72cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)