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 8 species of primates including the white-nosed saki ("Chiropotes albinasus"), red-handed tamarin ("Saguinus midas"), red-bellied titi ("Callicebus moloch"), Azara's night monkey ("Aotus azarae infulatus") and white-cheeked spider monkey ("Ateles marginatus"). The last two are endemic to this ecoregion and the Tapajós-Xingu moist forests to the west. Other species of mammals include white-lipped peccary ("Tayassu pecari"), collared peccary ("Pecari tajacu"), cougar ("Puma concolor"), jaguar ("Panthera onca"), South American tapir ("Tapirus terrestris"), brocket deer (genus "Mazama"), bare-tailed woolly opossum ("Caluromys philander"), and seven-banded armadillo ("Dasypus septemcinctus"). Endangered mammals include white-cheeked spider monkey ("Ateles marginatus"), black bearded saki ("Chiropotes satanas") and giant otter