Xingu State Park Xingu State Park Xingu State Park () is a state park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Xingu State Park is in the municipality of Santa Cruz do Xingu and has an area of . The park is in the Xingu River basin. It includes a section of the Xingu River that was outside the Xingu Indigenous Park. The park is important in helping protect the Xingu Indigenous Park, inhabited by fourteen ethnic groups, which is now surrounded by agricultural developments. The park is to the south of the Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, which is on the other side of
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests World Wildlife Fund classes the ecoregion "Vulnerable". The Tapajós-Xingu, Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia and Tocantins/Pindare moist forests ecoregions on the eastern edge of the Amazon basin have all been badly affected by human settlement and deforestation. The Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia region is the most deforested and degraded part of the Amazon region after the adjoining Tocantins/Pindare moist forests to the east. It is crossed by the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) from east to west, and by the BR-422 highway along the Tocantins. Most of the land along these roads has been deforested and replaced by pasture or farm fields. The remaining forest has been stripped of