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The Xingu River in Brazil is a tributary of the Amazon River.
It was little known until it was explored in 1884 – 1887 by
Karl von den Steinen from Cuiabá. Travelling east, 240 miles, he
found the river Tamitatoaba, 180 feet wide, flowing from a lake 25 miles in diameter. He
descended this torrential stream to the river Romero, 1300 feet wide, entering from the west, which receives the river
Colisu. These three streams form the Xingu, or Parana-xingu, which, from 73 miles lower down,
bounds along a succession of rapids for 400 miles. A little above the head of navigation, 105 miles from its mouth, the river
makes a bend to the east to find its way across a rocky barrier. Here is the great cataract of
Original text from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
The name has at least one reference in literature, as the title of a humorous Edith Wharton short story from 1911.
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