São José do Xingu of them passengers. The survivors were discovered only after 4 of the occupants walked for 3 hours through the forest to find help. São José do Xingu São José do Xingu is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. On 3 September 1989, a Varig Boeing 737-241 registration PP-VMK operating flight 254 flying from São Paulo-Guarulhos to Belém-Val de Cães with intermediate stops, crashed near São José do Xingu while on the last leg of the flight between Marabá and Belém due to a pilot navigational error, which led to fuel exhaustion and
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests many smaller blackwater rivers including the Pacajá and Anapu tributaries of the Amazon River, the Bacajá and Fresco tributaries of the Xingu, and the Parauapebas and Catete tributaries of the Tocantins. The ecoregion is in the neotropic ecozone and the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome. The Köppen climate classification is "Am": equatorial, monsoonal. Temperatures are fairly steady throughout the year, slightly higher in April and slightly lower in July. Average temperatures range from , with a mean of . The region is drier than the ecoregions further to the west. In the middle Xingu annual rainfall is .