HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080521840
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 : Feliz Natal, Querência
Sub-basin area
397,1km²
Upstream area
78 028,8km²
Discharge
1 360,27m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Calamuro705 km²
- Bassin de Rio Xingu153 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 241.5 km²61.1% of basin
- 154.0 km²38.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Parque do Xingu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
395.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
2 296mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
626mm/an
PET
1 968mm
AET
1 372mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
74cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)