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
Silver Creek (American River) Silver Creek (American River) Silver Creek is a major tributary of the South Fork American River in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It begins below the dam of Junction Reservoir where its two main tributaries meet — South Fork Silver Creek and Big Silver Creek. There are three reservoirs, all part of the Upper American River Project, along Silver Creek and its tributaries before the main stem empties into the South Fork American River just north of Pollock Pines. Ice House Reservoir lies along South Fork Silver Creek four miles northwest of Kyburz. Nine miles northwest of Kyburz is Union