Xingu Indigenous Park notable. He sought a city which Europeans had heard rumor of since their early 16th-century colonial contact, and he disappeared in the jungle in 1925. David Grann wrote an article about his exploration, followed by an expanded book, "The Lost City of Z" (2009) on the same subject and with the same title. It documents those early explorations. It also explores archeological evidence found since the late 20th century of large-scale indigenous civilizations that pre-date Spanish and Portuguese contacts and colonization. Xingu Indigenous Park The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests its valuable trees, and many native fauna and flora have become locally extinct. Large-scale mining near Marabá and elsewhere have directly affected the environment, and demand large quantities of wood to run the smelters. During the period from 2004 to 2011 the ecoregion experienced an annual rate of habitat loss of 0.94%. Global warming will force tropical species to migrate uphill to find areas with suitable temperature and rainfall. Low, flat, deforested ecoregions such as the Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests are extremely vulnerable. Conservation units include the Tapirapé Biological Reserve and Tapirapé-Aquiri National Forest. Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests The Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests