The Lower Xingu is home to vast protected areas and Indigenous territories that are essential for climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, and local livelihoods.

Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area lies in the ecologically rich Xingu Basin in the Brazilian Amazon and spans some 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) — an area more than half ...

The most controversial hydropower project in the Pan Amazon is the complex on the Rio Xingu near the city of Altamira (Pará). The proposal to build a dam on the Rio Xingu dates from 1979 and, as ...

WASHINGTON, DC, August 28, 2025 - The World Bank's Board of Directors has approved a new project to protect forests and promote sustainable ...

The Xingu River is revered as the “ house of God ” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential to their culture and ...

When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial dances ...