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Xingu River - Wikipedia

The Xingu River is a 1,640 km (1,019 mi) river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the ...

Country‎: ‎Brazil

Basin size‎: ‎520,300 km² (200,900 sq mi)

Mouth‎: ‎Amazon River

⁃ average‎: ‎9,680 m³/s (342,000 cu ft/s)

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Xingu River | International Rivers

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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 ...

Reshaping the Xingu River - NASA Earth Observatory

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Oct 5, 2017 - The change has an entirely human cause—construction of the Belo Monte Dam complex on the Xingu River in northern Brazil. The Enhanced ...

Belo Monte, Brazil: The tribes living in the shadow of a ...

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Dec 16, 2014 - By the Great Bend of the Xingu river in the depths of Amazonia, the Juruna tribe is being drowned by what seems at first sight to be a flood of TV ...

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Xingu River and its People | Indigenous Land and Rights ...

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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 ...

Brazilian Tribe Fear Displacement by Xingu River's Rising Tide

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Apr 28, 2017 - In the latest from the Displaced and Disposable series, Bruna Kadletz visits the Juruna tribe, who live by the Xingu River in Brazil and face ...

Xingu River | river, Brazil | Britannica

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Xingu River, Portuguese Rio Xingu, river in Mato Grosso and Pará states, Brazil. The river rises on the Planalto (plateau) do Mato Grosso, in the drainage basin ...

Where the Xingu Bends and Will Soon Break | American ...

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With its globally unique geomorphology, hydrology, and aquatic biota, Brazil's Xingu River offers a seemingly foolproof argument for its preservation. Yet the will ...

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The Xingu River is a 1,640 km river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin, accounting for about 5% of its water. Wikipedia

Length: 1,640 km

Basin area: 531,250 km²

Basin size: 520,300 km² (200,900 sq mi)

Source: Mato Grosso Plateau

Mouth: Amazon River

⁃ average: 9,680 m³/s (342,000 cu ft/s)

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