The Culuene River, or Kuluene River is a 600 km tributary of
Xingu River
The Xingu River ( ; ; ) is a river in north Brazil. It is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clearwater rivers in the Amazon basin, accounting for about 5% of its water.
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Description and history
The fir ...
in
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – ) is one of the states of Brazil, the List of Brazilian states by area, third largest by area, located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible ...
, a state in western
Brazil
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. The main economic activities in the region are agriculture and cattle farming.
It joins the Xingu from the southeast in the
Xingu Indigenous Park
The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in 1961 as a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Its official purposes are to protect the environment and the several nations of Xingu I ...
. The
Culuene Biological Reserve is south of the park in the municipality of
Paranatinga, Mato Grosso.
See also
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List of rivers of Mato Grosso
List of rivers in Mato Grosso (Brazilian State).
The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. Mato Grosso is divided by those streams that fl ...
References
Rivers of Mato Grosso
Rivers of Xingu Indigenous Park
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