Xingu Indigenous Park Xingu Indigenous Park The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in 1961 as a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Its official purposes are to protect the environment and the several tribes of Xingu indigenous peoples in the area. The Xingu Indigenous Park is in the north east of the state of Mato Grosso, in the south of the Amazon biome. It covers , with savannah and drier semi-deciduous forests in the south transitioning to Amazon rain forest in the north. There is a rainy season from November to
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests These include osprey ("Pandion haliaetus"), harpy eagle ("Harpia harpyja"), channel-billed toucan ("Ramphastos vitellinus"), little chachalaca ("Ortalis motmot"), nine tinamou species (Crypturellus and Tinamus genera), seven macaw species (Ara genus) including hyacinth macaw ("Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus"), many parakeets (Aratinga, Pyrrhura and Brotogeris genera), parrots (Amazona and Pionus genera) and hoatzin ("Opisthocomus hoazin"). Endangered birds include the green-thighed parrot ("Pionites leucogaster") and red-necked aracari ("Pteroglossus bitorquatus"). The World Wildlife Fund classes the ecoregion as "Vulnerable". The Tapajós-Xingu, Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia and Tocantins-Pindara moist forest ecoregions on the eastern edge of the Amazon basin have all been badly affected by human settlement and deforestation. Roads have