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    The Xingu River (/ʃiːŋˈɡuː/ sheeng-GOO; Portuguese: Rio Xingu [ˈʁi.u ʃĩˈɡu]; Mẽbêngôkre: Byti [bɯˈti]: 73 ) is a 1,640 km (1,020 mi) river in north Brazil...
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  • Xingu may refer to: Distinctly Brazilian topics: Major, and also original, senses: Xingu River, in north Brazil, southeast tributary of the Amazon Xingu...
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    The Xingu River ray, River stingray, white-blotched river stingray, or polka-dot stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi) is a species of freshwater fish in the...
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    The Xingu are an indigenous people of Brazil living near the Xingu River. They are the Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kayapó, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá...
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  • environment and the several nations of Xingu Indigenous peoples in the area. The Xingu Indigenous Park is on the upper Xingu River in the northeast of the state...
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    native tribes. The original Xingu Black Beer label, created as a painting by Eric Green, depicts a map of the Xingu River region, anaconda snakes, a caiman...
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    Xingu as far as Monte Alegre. These hills are cut down to a kind of terrace which lies between them and the river. On the south bank, above the Xingu...
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    The Iriri River (Portuguese: Rio Iriri [ˈʁi.u iɾiˈɾi]; Mẽbêngôkre: Kororoti [kɔˌɾɔɾɔˈti]: 40 ) is a large tributary of the Xingu River in Brazil, in the...
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    Tocantins and Xingu Rivers, just to the south of Marajó Island in eastern Pará State, Brazil. Proto-Omagua-Kokama then expanded up the Amazon River, Proto-Tupinambá...
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    Kararaô) is a hydroelectric dam complex on the northern part of the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. After its completion, with the installation...
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    lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon River and along Xingu River and its tributaries. He is internationally famous as a living...
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    Missions already inhabited the Xingu region, it was not until the 1750s that Father Roque Hunderfund entered the Xingu River until the Tucuruí Igarapé, later...
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    The Fresco River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a right tributary of Xingu River, which it joins at São Félix do Xingu. The Fresco...
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  • History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin". Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 368 (1619):...
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  • The Pardo River (Portuguese: Rio Pardo) is a river in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is a left tributary of the Xingu River. The Pardo River defines the...
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    Kayapo (category Xingu peoples)
    south of the Amazon River and along the Xingu River and its tributaries. This pattern has given rise to the nickname "the Xingu tribe". They are one...
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  • The Jaraucu River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil, a tributary of the Xingu River. The river flows through the Tapajós-Xingu moist forests...
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    TDPS System". Water. 8 (4): 144. doi:10.3390/w8040144. Rio Xingu watershed map at Rivers Network. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF)...
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  • The Acarai River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil, a tributary of the Xingu River. The river runs through the 1,288,720 hectares (3,184...
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    Kalapalo (category Xingu peoples)
    They are one of seventeen tribal groups who inhabit the Xingu National Park in the Upper Xingu River region of the state of Mato Grosso. They speak the Amonap...
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    Kuhikugu (category Xingu peoples)
    at the headwaters of the Xingu River, in the Amazon Rainforest. The area around Kuhikugu is located in part of the Xingu National Park today. Kuhikugu...
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    Mehinaku (category Xingu peoples)
    the Xingu, located around the headwaters of the Xingu River in Mato Grosso. They currently reside in area around the Tuatuari and Kurisevo Rivers. They...
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    was active in the movement against the Belo Monte Dam project on the Xingu River in the 1980s and constitutional amendment PEC 215 in the 2010s. Tuíre's...
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    the basins of the Amazon River, the Xingu River, the Paraguay River, the Orinoco, the Paraná River, and the Tocantins River. It reaches 3.3 cm (1.3 inches)...
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  • The Bacajá River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a tributary of the Xingu River. The Bacajá River is a blackwater river. Its basin...
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  • about the archaeological site of Kuhikugu, near the headwaters of the Xingu River.[page needed] In 2022, the remains of settlements near Llanos de Moxos...
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  • indigenous people along the Xingu River in 1961. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, from Survival International, wrote in 1971 that "The Xingu is the only closed park...
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    expedite in northern Brazil. 1842 — Prince Adalbert of Prussia visits the Xingu River. 1842-45 — Tardy de Montravel conducts a mapping expedition of the northern...
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  • (Portuguese: Rio Comandante Fontoura) is a river in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, a right tributary of the Xingu River. It starts in the Serra do Roncador...
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    in the relatively open areas associated with the Tocantins River, Xingu River, Tapajós River, and the Marajó island in the eastern Amazon Basin of Brazil...
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