HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080532350
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 : Gaúcha do Norte, Querência
Sub-basin area
124,5km²
Upstream area
44 899,4km²
Discharge
801,67m³/s
Mean elev.
294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080533190295 km²
- Bassin · #608053333033 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 74.6 km²60.1% of basin
- 49.4 km²39.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Parque do Xingu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
124.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
2 345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
530mm/an
PET
1 969mm
AET
1 370mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
46cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)