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
South Fork American River in 2011. The river begins at Nebelhorn near Johnson Pass about south of Lake Tahoe. From there it flows west for , past the towns of Kyburz, Pollock Pines and Coloma, before emptying into Folsom Lake, the reservoir formed by the Folsom Dam. The North Fork American River also flows into the lake, and the combined rivers form the American River proper, which flows from the dam southwest to a confluence with the Sacramento River. The South Fork drains an area of , or about a third of the American River watershed. Major tributaries include Silver Creek, Rock Creek, Weber