{"id":360555,"date":"2026-04-11T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=360555"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:22:41","slug":"xingu-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/xingu-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Xingu River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>Thousands of Indigenous people gathered during the Free Land Camp to oppose a large gold mining project along the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Xingu River<\/span><\/span>, which they believe threatens both their livelihoods and the fragile Amazon ecosystem<\/p>\n<h2>About Xingu River<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360558\" style=\"width: 571px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-360558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_11-4-2026_134339_www.researchgate.net_.jpeg?resize=571%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Xingu River\" width=\"571\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_11-4-2026_134339_www.researchgate.net_.jpeg?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_11-4-2026_134339_www.researchgate.net_.jpeg?resize=768%2C329&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_11-4-2026_134339_www.researchgate.net_.jpeg?w=916&amp;ssl=1 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Researchgate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located in the <strong>state of Para<\/strong> in <strong>northern Brazil<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> It rises from the<strong> Mato Grosso Plateau in Brazil,<\/strong> between the <strong>Serra do Roncador and Serra Formosa mountain ranges.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is formed by the confluence<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jatob\u00e1, Ronuro, Batovi, Kurisevo and Kuluene rivers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"277\">Course of river: <\/strong>It flows northward <strong>for about 2,100 km\u00a0from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is joined by its main tributary,<strong> the Iriri River,<\/strong> near Altamira.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, it empties into the <strong>Amazon River <\/strong>just south of<strong> Ilha Grande de Gurupa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total basin area:<\/strong> Its basin covers an <strong>area of 531,000 km\u00b2.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It<strong> forms a 100-km-long bend<\/strong> known as the <strong>Volta Grande do Xingu in the Amazon rainforest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Serra do Cachimbo waterfalls and the Volta Grand rapids<\/strong> (downstream from Altamira) <strong>act as a barrier<\/strong> for aquatic fauna between the central Amazon Basin and the upper Xingu basin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributary of:<\/strong> It is one of the largest tributaries of the<strong> Amazon River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Park:<\/strong> Around<strong> 14,000 indigenous people from nine different ethnic groups<\/strong> live along the river.\n<ul>\n<li>To protect these communities,<strong> the Xingu National Park<\/strong> was established along it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hydro-project:<\/strong> The <strong>Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Karara\u00f4) is a\u00a0hydroelectric dam <\/strong>on the northern part of the Xingu River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Thousands of Indigenous people gathered during the Free Land Camp to oppose a large gold mining project along the Xingu River, which they believe threatens both their livelihoods and the fragile Amazon ecosystem About Xingu River Location: It is located in the state of Para in northern Brazil. Origin: It rises from the Mato Grosso&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/xingu-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xingu River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-360555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}