6-602: The Culuene River , or Kuluene River is a 600 km tributary of Xingu River in Mato Grosso , a state in western Brazil . The main economic activities in the region are agriculture and cattle farming. It joins the Xingu from the southeast in the Xingu Indigenous Park . The Culuene Biological Reserve is south of the park in the municipality of Paranatinga , Mato Grosso. This article related to
12-644: A 100 km (60 mi) stretch known as the Volta Grande ("Big Bend"). The river flow in this stretch is highly complex and includes major sections of rapids . More than 450 fish species have been documented in the Xingu River Basin and it is estimated that the total is around 600 fish species, including many endemics . At least 193 fish species living in rapids are known from the lower Xingu, and at least 26 of these are endemic. From 2008 to 2018 alone, 24 new fish species have been described from
18-461: A river in Mato Grosso , Brazil is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Xingu River The Xingu River ( / ʃ iː ŋ ˈ ɡ uː / sheeng- GOO ; Portuguese : Rio Xingu [ˈʁi.u ʃĩˈɡu] ; Mẽbêngôkre : Byti [bɯˈti] ) is a 1,640 km (1,020 mi) river in north Brazil . It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of
24-654: The largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin , accounting for about 5% of its water. The first Indigenous Park in Brazil was created in the river basin by the Brazilian government in the early 1960s. This park marks the first indigenous territory recognized by the Brazilian government and it was the world's largest indigenous preserve on the date of its creation. Currently, fourteen tribes live within Xingu Indigenous Park , surviving on natural resources and extracting from
30-542: The river most of what they need for food and water. The Brazilian government built the Belo Monte Dam on the Lower Xingu, which began operations in 2019 and is the world's fifth-largest hydroelectric dam. Construction of this dam was under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative environmental and social impacts along with reducing the flow by up to 80% along
36-531: The river. Many species are seriously threatened by the dam, which will significantly alter the flow in the Volta Grande rapids. In the Upper Xingu region was a highly self-organized pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape, including deposits of fertile agricultural terra preta , black soil in Portuguese , with a network of roads and polities each of which covered about 250 square kilometers. Near
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