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 River extracting from the river most of what they need for food and water. The Brazilian government is building the Belo Monte Dam, which will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam, on the Lower Xingu. Construction of this dam is under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative environmental and social impacts along with reducing the flow by up to 80% along a stretch known as the Volta Grande ("Big Bend"). The river flow in this stretch is highly complex and includes major sections of rapids. More than 450 fish species have been documented