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 in the Xingu River Basin and it is estimated that the total is around 600 fish species, including many endemics. At least 193 fish species living in rapids are known from the lower Xingu, and at least 26 of these are endemic. From 2008 to 2018 alone, 24 new fish species have been described from the river. Many species are seriously threatened by the dam, which will significantly alter the flow in the Volta Grande rapids. In the Upper Xingu region was a highly self-organized pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape, including deposits of fertile agricultural terra preta, black soil in Portuguese, with