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- In lieu of more efficient alternatives, the Xingu River provided essential access to Brazil's interior for the earliest Catholic missionaries, as well as for Brazilian frontiersmen, traders, and slave raiders. In 1961 the Xingu National Park was created by Orlando and Claudio Villas Boâs to protect the Amerindians from extermination.
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Xingu River, river in Mato Grosso and Pará states, Brazil. The river rises on the Planalto (plateau) do Mato Grosso, in the drainage basin framed by the Serra do Roncador and the Serra Formosa mountain ranges.
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In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey/Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun. Xingu is a 2011 Brazilian movie, directed by Brazilian film-maker Cao Hamburger.
Traversing the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará, the Xingu River is an eastern tributary of the Amazon, spanning 1,979 kilometers in length. Near its mouth, the Xingu expands into an immense lake, and its waters then mix with those of the Amazon through a labyrinth of natural canals.
Jun 5, 2013 · The Xingu River rises in the woodlands–savannah and transitional, semi-deciduous forest of northern Mato Grosso and flows north through the dense, moist forest of Pará for 2700 km to empty into the Amazon. A clear water river, it drains a landscape of ancient crystalline pre-Cambrian shield.
- Stephan Schwartzman, André Villas Boas, Katia Yukari Ono, Marisa Gesteira Fonseca, Juan Doblas, Barb...
- 2013
A Different Story Down River – Arara Way down the river where the Iriri joins the Xingu, a very different story unfolded. The Arara were a fierce and warlike tribe who held everyone, Indigenous and white alike, at bay until the 1970s.
Apr 3, 2018 · The Xingu River flows from the west-central savannah region in the state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon River Basin in the state of Para in northern Brazil. An impressive number— estimated at some 60...
Jul 16, 2007 · The Xingu River flows from the tropical savanna of central Mato Grosso, Brazil northward to the Amazon for 1,979 km (1,230 miles). Some 25,000 indigenous people from 18 distinct ethnic groups live along the Xingu.
