Xingu. The Xingu River Basin is the fourth largest tributary basin in the Amazon and with 507,000 km2 and it is nearly the size of France. Xingu River Basin map.
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Does the Xingu River flow into the Atlantic Ocean?
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Oceanic tides occur 100 km up the Xingu, as its confluence with the Amazon River is 420 km from the Atlantic Ocean. The headwaters below 10ºS are nestled between the Serra Formosa and Serra do Roncador in a depression characterized by extensive wetlands that are periodically flooded.
What fish are in the Xingu River?
Xingu River and Species
Species: The Xingu offers a variety of fish species - matrinxa, wolffish, peacock bass, payara, pacu, bicuda, piranha, red-tailed catfish, vampire fish, and more. All fishing is catch-and-release.
Is the Xingu River a tributary of the Amazon River?
The Xingu River is almost 2,500 km long and contributes approximately 4 percent of the Amazon River's total annual discharge. The confluence of the Xingu and Amazon rivers is approximately 420 km from the Atlantic via the main river. Oceanic tides are evident at least 100 km up the Xingu.
What found in Latin America is the largest river basin in the world?
The Amazon River basin is the largest river basin on Earth. Its alluvial plain is between nineteen and fifty kilometres wide and, in total, covers an area of 7,413,827 square kilometres, comprising 20% of the planet's water.
This study applied regionalization techniques on future climate change scenarios for the precipitation over the Xingu River Basin (XRB) considering the 2021 ...
The Xingu River is a 1,640 km (1,020 mi) river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in ...
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Jun 11, 2019 · With predominantly sandy and rocky bottoms and a watershed that drains 520,292 km2, the Xingu River includes a section of high fish diversity ...
The multilingual Vaupés River Basin in Northwest Amazonia, panning adjacent areas of Brazil and Colombia, is a well-established linguistic area. Its major ...
We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of dams in the basin. The scale of foreseeable environmental ...
The Xingu River basin is a territory very representative of the socioenvironmental and cultural diversity of the Brazilian Amazon. Among the traditional peoples ...
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Jun 7, 2013 · The Xingu River Basin saw more forests with repeated burning than nearly anywhere else in the Amazon over the study period, with some areas ...
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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).
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Posted: Mar 9, 2021
Posted: Mar 9, 2021
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