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
American River of the Lakes) which may or may not have been an error, as in those times the area of the Central Valley surrounding the American River was home to vast marshes, which would have given the river the appearance of a series of lakes. During the 1820s, Jedediah Smith led an expedition to the American River with the goal of finding a safe route across the Sierra Nevada. After a failed attempt to cross the mountains via the South Fork of the American River, Smith's group managed to cross via Ebbetts Pass on the headwaters of the Stanislaus River, becoming