São Félix do Xingu São Félix do Xingu São Félix do Xingu is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The city is served by São Félix do Xingu Airport. With an area of , it is the third largest municipality in Pará and the sixth largest in Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Tapirapé Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1989. It contains part of the Tapirapé-Aquiri National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989. It also contains part of the Terra do Meio Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit
Xingu peoples European slavers arrived in the Xingu region around 1750. Xinuguano population was estimated in the tens of thousands but was dramatically reduced by diseases and slavery by Europeans. In the centuries since the penetration of the Europeans into South America, the Xingu fled from different regions to escape modernization and cultural assimilation. Nonetheless settlers made it up as far as the upper run of the Rio Xingu. By the end of the 19th century, about 3,000 natives lived at the Alto Xingu, where their current political status has kept them protected against European intruders. By the mid twentieth century this