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 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