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	Tenotã–mõ Executive Summary \| International Rivers
		A large land area of the Big Bend of the Xingu between the river and the Transamazon highway, in an area of colonization projects and ranches between Altamira and the Belo Monte do Pontal ferry landing in addition to river bank lands and islands along the Xingu for 200 km, in two totally distinct stretches.
		All river bank residences from the BIS to the Xingu Club will have to be removed, and the "ports" for river boats and speed boats will have to be moved, for example on the "Seis" ramp where various houses will be below the 97 meter level.
		At the confluence of the Bacajá river with the Xingu, the meeting of the waters of the two rivers produces a typically Amazonian phenomenon.
	internationalrivers.org /en/latin-america/amazon-basin/xingu-river/tenot-m-executive-summary (6528 words)

	Something's a bit Fishy in Brazil: Fishing the Xingu River \| Frommers.com
		Beaches separate the river from the forest, and outcroppings of basalt rocks punctuate the entire basin.
		The Xingu Lodge is all-inclusive, so once there, visitors can relax and let their biggest worries be what sort of fish to pursue and what lures might best entice them.
		The Xingu River is rich in fish, and it's possible to catch over 15 species in the lodge's 18 miles of river alone.
	www.frommers.com /rss/articles/3856.html (1729 words)

	Amazon Inc.,- 5 Women in search of Black Beer
		The name XINGU (pronounced shin-goo') is a tributary of the Amazon River which is home to the few surviving cultures and species of native Amazonian life threatened by dam sites, over-development and exploitation.
		The distinct diamond-shaped XINGU Black Beer label was painted by artist Eric Green depicting a map of the XINGU River region, bordered by anacondas, with a Txucahamei warrior and a caiman.
		XINGU Black Beer was first introduced to the American market in February 1988 in ceremonies held at the Culinary Institute of America.
	www.amazonbeer.com /3wmnsch.html (470 words)

	Xingu River
		A large land area of the Big Bend of the Xingu between the river and the Transamazon highway, in an area of colonization projects and ranches between Altamira and the Belo Monte do Pontal ferry landing in addition to river bank lands and islands along the Xingu for 200 km, in two totally distinct stretches.
		All river bank residences from the BIS to the Xingu Club will have to be removed, and the "ports" for river boats and speed boats will have to be moved, for example on the "Seis" ramp where various houses will be below the 97 meter level.
		At the confluence of the Bacajá river with the Xingu, the meeting of the waters of the two rivers produces a typically Amazonian phenomenon.
	www.irn.org /programs/xingu/index.php?id=archive/TenotaMo.html (6563 words)

	Orvis Travel Service - Fly Fishing Trips -- Brazil - Xingu River Lodge
		The Xingu River Lodge is the only peacock bass location in Brazil with fly fishing for peacocks this time of year, and offers a different experience than other Amazonian fishing destinations.
		Xingu River Lodge is not a dedicated fly-fishing lodge – don’t go if you don’t want to mix with light tackle anglers – but their guides were trained in fly fishing techniques and they certainly know where the fish are.
		Fortunately, the Xingu in the vicinity of the lodge is a protected river where only sport fishing is allowed by law and to which access is restricted solely to lodge guests for an 18 mile expanse.
	www.orvis.com /detail.asp?subject=108&index=83&dir_id=&cat_id=&group_id= (1366 words)

	Brazil: Indigenous peoples restart their struggle against dams on the Xingu river
		Indigenous leader Paulo Payakan went to the offices of the World Bank in Washington to speak againt the financing of the hydroelectric dam of Kararao, because it would destroy nature and violate the rights of the native inhabitants of the region.
		The struggle against the Xingu dams is not lost.
		There is still hope that we will not become witnesses or accomplices of the death of Xingu river.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/57/Brazil.html (481 words)

	ESPN.com: Outdoors : Out There: My Xingu Shangri-La (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sulocki poses with one of the conspicuous piramutaba catfish caught in the Xingu.
		The Xingu is a vast maelstrom of swirling water.
		Xingu River Lodge is in the Brazilian state of Pará, approximately 50 miles from the city of Altamira.
	sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/tv/columns/story?columnist=sutton_keith&page=g_col_sutton_Xingu_Shangri-La (1417 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Xingu River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Xingu River, the next large river west of the Tocantins[?], is a true tributary of the Amazon River.
		He descended this torrential stream to the river Romero, 1300 foot wide, entering from the west, which receives the river Colisu[?].
		Near its mouth, the Xingu expands into an immense lake, and its waters then mingle with those of the Amazon through a labyrinth of eanos (natural canals), winding in countless directions through a wooded archipelago.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/xi/Xingu_River (216 words)

	Indians fearing development on oldest preserve in Brazil - The Boston Globe
		XINGU NATIONAL PARK, Brazil -- Naked children are leaping from mango trees and tumbling into the mild water of the Xingu River without a care.
		Xingu is Brazil's oldest and probably its most successful Indian reservation, a 10,800-square-mile sprawl of pristine rainforest where 14 Indian tribes live.
		Once-crystalline rivers are muddied from erosion caused by farming and logging upriver.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/02/22/indians_fearing_development_on_oldest_preserve_in_brazil (757 words)

	ESA - Observing the Earth - Earth from Space: A river of diversity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Xingu River flows northward approximately 2 100 kilometres from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso into the Amazon River, the second longest river in the world after the Nile.
		The rivers that form the Xingu River are: Jatobá, Ronuro, Batovi, Kurisevo and Kuluene, which is the Xingu’s main tributary.
		The river passes through partly unexplored country and is a rich area in terms of environment and cultural diversity, with some 14,000 indigenous people from nine different ethnic groups living along it.
	www.esrin.esa.it /esaEO/SEM0VVK8IOE_index_0.html (518 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tapajós-Xingu moist forests (NT0168)
		The environment is heterogeneous with undulating terrain and numerous smaller rivers that dissect the interfluve.
		The Tapajós River is a barrier to the distribution of animals, plants, and insects.
		This interfluvial ecoregion is bound by the Tapajós River to the west, the Xingu River to the east and the Solimões (Amazon) River and várzea to the north.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0168_full.html (1187 words)

	Ethnologue report for Brazil
		On the Alalau and Camanau rivers on the border between the state of Amazonas and the territory of Roraima, and on the Jatapu and Jauaperi rivers.
		Mato Grosso, confluence of Sangue and Juruena rivers, Japuira on the east bank of the Juruena between the Arinos and Sangue rivers, and Posto Escondido on the west bank of the Juruena 700 km north.
		Rondônia, tributaries of the Jiparaná (Machado) River and Sono River.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=BR (2900 words)

	DoBeS — Kuikuro - Geography
		The headwater region of the Xingu River, a major southern tributary of the Amazon, is known as the ‘Upper Xingu’ and constitutes an ecological, cultural and political unit.
		The Upper Xingu is a “large tongue of forested land protruding into the savannah, transitional between the equatorial Amazon lowland forest and the tropical central Brazilian forest” (Heckenberger, 1996).
		The Xingu River is formed by the meeting of the rivers Steinen, Ronuro, Batovi, Culiseu and Culuene, from west to east.
	www.mpi.nl /DOBES/projects/kuikuro/geography (403 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests (NT0180)
		The environment is heterogeneous with an undulating terrain and numerous smaller rivers that dissect the interfluve.
		Annual rainfall in middle Xingu is 1,500 to 2,000 mm; the region is drier than the central and western parts of the Amazon.
		This interfluvial ecoregion is bound by the Amazon Delta to the north, the Xingu River to the west, and the Tocantins River to the east.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0180_full.html (1379 words)

	Ikpeng tribe – ‘We will not let this dam be built’ \| News from Survival International
		The Ikpeng tribe of the Xingu Park in Brazil have written an impassioned letter demanding that plans to build a hydroelectric dam on their river be halted.
		It is one of several dams to be built along the Xingu river and its tributaries.
		We want the fish and the fauna and flora, we want the river to be clean, we want water that feeds us and quenches our thirst, water that fills our bodies, the lakes with their fish, the forest with animals, water for everyone.
	www.survival-international.org /news.php?id=2401 (431 words)

	ARARA :: Enciclopédia :: Povos Indígenas no Brasil :: ISA
		Their relocation into the Xingu basin seems to have coincided with a migration of the Kayapó, who left the savannah areas close to the Araguaia river in the middle of the 19th century and reached the middle Xingu sometime at the start of the 20th century.
		Historical data confirm the Arara's movement between the two shores of the middle Xingu river as far as the fixation on its left shore, close to the Iriri river, after crossing the Xingu someway below the 'Big Bend,' around the middle of the 19th century.
		Occupying the watershed region between west of the Xingu, east of the Tapajós and south of the lower Amazon since the middle of the 19th century, the Arara had access to the natural resources found both in the Xingu basin and the smaller affluents running into the Amazon.
	www.socioambiental.org /pib/epienglish/arara/origins.shtm (576 words)

	Xingu River Blues
		“The Kuluene river is the source of food for the peoples of the Xingu, we need it to feed ourselves, we use it to bathe in and to cook our food in, the fish come up the river to spawn, the animals drink the water.
		We want the fish and the fauna and flora, we want the river to be clean, we want water that feeds us and quenches our thirst, water that fills our bodies, the lakes with their fish, the forest with animals, water for everyone.
		The Xingu river basin will suffer from reduced water flow, adding to already observable ecological effects of mass deforestation in the area (largely to plant soy for animal feed).
	gnn.tv /threads/25066/Xingu_River_Blues (1145 words)

	Wide Angle . The Dammed . Handbook: Five Controversial Dams \| PBS
		A view of the Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon, where the state-run power company, Electronorte, intend to build the Belo Monte dam.
		The Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex is actually an adaptation of an old proposal to dam the Xingu River (a large tributary of the Amazon) that was dropped over 10 years ago in the face of international resistance.
		There are a number of potential problems with drastically altering the nature of the world's most richly diverse ecosystem, including possible threats to a number of species that exist nowhere else in the world.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/dammed/handbook4.html (679 words)

	Xingu.html
		The Xingu, which according to our guide Manasei means God’s house, is one of the main affluent of the Amazon.
		We noticed how wide was the river and how fast the current, so we asked the lodge owner if we were indeed in the low water conditions advertised by the booking agency.
		In rivers, this fish tend to relate to stone and stones structures, and these rivers have plenty of beautiful large red boulders everywhere.
	www.ese.upenn.edu /~santiago/fishing/Xingu.html (1615 words)

	Fish Species - Great Pet Advice
		It is a species of catfish commonly found in the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon River, and was first described in the early 1990s.
		The Xingu corydoras (Corydoras xinguensis) is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family.
		It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the upper Xingu River basin in Brazil.
	www.greatpetadvice.com /category/fish-species (663 words)

	Amazon River Tour Of The Xingu & Irriri River
		Following a day for R + R in Altamira we then journey up stream to the Irriri River where we pass through the territory of the Arara indigenous people, whose name is reflected in the abundance of scarlet macaws in the area.
		The rainforest biodiversity in the Xingu / Irriri - Tapajos region of Para is high, hosting 153 species of mammal.
		River wildlife includes the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), fl caiman (Melanosuchus Niger), yellow-spotted sideneck turtle (Podocnemis Unifilis), Fish eagles and Giant river otter (Pteronura Brasiliensis).
	www.amazon-holidays.com /amazon-river-tours-xinguirriri.html (699 words)

	Xingu River Lodge, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Xingu River Lodge is equipped with satellite television, ice machine, two power generators placed far from the lodge and a spacious, scenic balcony, where you can stretch out on a couch or in a hammock and delight in the expansive vistas of the unspoiled wilderness of the Xingu River.
		The Xingu River Lodge can also be reached via international flights to Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, with domestic connections to Manaus or Belém.
		The exotic nature of the regional palate is expressed in a rich variety of options, thanks to the natural wealth and extent of the river basin and surrounding rainforest.
	www.fishinginamazon.com /xingu_river_lodge.htm (793 words)

	The Kayapo Indians’ Struggle in Brazil by Ava Y. Goodale
		The Kayapo Indians are an indigenous tribe inhabiting land on both sides of the Xingu River in the state of Par
		Pollution is traveling from the headwaters of the Xingu downriver to the reserve, contaminating water supplies and food resources.
		In the town of Altamira an intertribal, international, and integrated coalition, called The Peoples of the Xingu, was formed to demonstrate against the dams.
	www.actionbioscience.org /environment/goodale.html (1593 words)

	Fishing Adventures along the Xingu River – Pará, Brazil
		With a pull of the starter cord, we motored up and across rapids, and between the myriad islands that dappled the enchanted river - moving through a series of micro climates - at once warm and humid and then on to another group of islands where the air was cool and dry.
		The yellow peacock bass of the Xingu River as a juvenile is dark, with numerous spots.
		The Xingu River Lodge is remotely located and is not equipped to outfit anglers.
	www.anglersnet.co.uk /Overseas-Articles/adventure_fishing_Brazil.html (2398 words)

	Pescamazon
		The hydrographic area of the Xingu river flows, 350 km wide, for about 1450 km, draining an impressive area of 531.250 square kilometers, before joining the Amazon River near the small village of Porto de Moz.
		Despite all these impressive datum, the river is not appropriate for large scale navigation or commercial fishing, mainly due to the frequently found water rapids.
		The lodge is equipped with satellite television, ice machine, two power generators far from the lodge and a comfortable balcony where you can stretch out on a couch or in a hammock and delight in the perfectly beautiful view of the unspoiled wilderness of the Xingu River.
	www.pescamazon.com /pacotes/xingu/xingu.htm (801 words)

	G Dyott Photo Fawcett Dead Horse Camp Pot Hole Rock River Shelf Oxen Stepped In Lat13 58' Lon54 31'
		To people on the Mato Grosso Paranatinga river the river the word I-ti may mean the large Xingu river to the east 150 miles distance in the rise of the sun.
		It is likely the I-ti river is the Kuluene river and Aloique was relating to Commander George Dyott in terms of the name the people over in Cuyaba and Posto Simoes Lopes knew the Xingu river (Kuluene river) by and that was the name I-ti.
		Scared perhaps of having a skewness against them other tribes of the Xingu are not burdened with in terms of proceedings in the courts of Brazil to regain some of their Piqui Orchards and land for other purposes not within the set aside Xingu reserve but held by Brazilian ranchers and farmers nearby.
	www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com /id28.html (9790 words)

	Greenpeace :. Expedition: Amazon 2001 :. The Expedition :. Amazon Updates
		It is another clear water river that feeds into the Amazon river from the south.
		It was a short trip up the Xingu to the small town, but along the way we witnessed the results of forest destruction.
		The trees are lush and green and hang into the Xingu river.
	archive.greenpeace.org /amazon/ship/oct17/oct17_index.html (693 words)

	Current Action - Global Response - Environmental Action & Education
		Now Eletronorte, the state-owned electrical utilities company, is back on the Xingu River with plans to build a first dam, the Belo Monte, with a smaller reservoir than the original design.
		The Amazon River and its tributaries, including the Xingu, supply 20% of the earth’s fresh water and have the highest diversity of freshwater fish.
		Dams on the Xingu River would flood parts of the Xingu Indigenous Park, threatening the survival and cultural integrity of at least 15 indigenous tribes, including the Kayapo.
	www.globalresponse.org /gra.php?i=5/01 (441 words)

	Claudio Villas-Boas - The Villas-Boas Brothers - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers
		Together with his brothers helped spread the notion that Indians should not be acculturated and civilized, but they should be left alone and as isolated as possible from the rest of the Brazilians.
		In the Xingu area we started to meet Indians who had never been in contact with white men.
		By 1994, the Xingu Park dreamed by the Villas-Boas as a "society of nations" had 6,000 Indians living in 18 settlements from different tribes.
	www.phfawcettsweb.org /claudio.htm (1491 words)

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