Xingu River
The Xingu River is a 1,640 km 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Distributary
- Description: tributary river of the Amazon River in South America
- Also known as: “Rio Baixo Xingú”, “Rio Baxio Xingú”, “Rio Xingu”, and “Xingu”
Xingu River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Pará, North, Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
Discover Xingu River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Xingu River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rio Xingu”
- Arabic: “ريو شينجو”
- Arabic: “نهر شينجو”
- Arabic: “نهر شينغو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Xingú”
- Azerbaijani: “Şinqu çayı”
- Basque: “Xingu”
- Belarusian: “Рака Шынгу”
- Belarusian: “Шынгу”
- Bengali: “শিঙ্গু নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Шингу”
- Catalan: “riu Xingu”
- Catalan: “Riu Xingu”
- Catalan: “Xingu”
- Catalan: “Xingú”
- Cebuano: “Rio Xingu”
- Chinese: “兴古河”
- Chinese: “欣古河”
- Chinese: “辛古河”
- Chuvash: “Шингу”
- Croatian: “Xingu”
- Czech: “Xingu”
- Danish: “Xingu”
- Dutch: “Xingu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر شينجو”
- Esperanto: “Ŝinguo”
- Estonian: “Xingu”
- Finnish: “Xingu”
- French: “rio Xingu”
- French: “Rio Xingu”
- Galician: “río Xingu”
- German: “Rio Xingu”
- Hebrew: “שינגו”
- Hungarian: “Rio Xingu”
- Hungarian: “Xingu”
- Irish: “Abhainn Xingu”
- Italian: “Xingu”
- Japanese: “シングー川”
- Korean: “싱구강”
- Latin: “Xingu”
- Latvian: “Šingu”
- Lithuanian: “Šingu”
- Macedonian: “Шингу”
- Malagasy: “Rio Xingu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xingu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xingu”
- Norwegian: “Xingu”
- Persian: “رود خینگو”
- Persian: “رود شینگو”
- Polish: “Xingu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Xingu”
- Russian: “Шингу”
- Saterfriesisch: “Rio Xingu”
- Scots: “Xingu River”
- Serbian: “Шингу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Xingu”
- Slovak: “Xingu”
- Spanish: “Río Xingú”
- Spanish: “Xingu”
- Spanish: “Xingú”
- Swedish: “Rio Xingu”
- Swedish: “Xingufloden”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Xingu”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำชีงกู”
- Turkish: “Xingu Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Шінгу”
- Venetian: “Fiume Xingú”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Xingu”
- Welsh: “Afon Xingu”
- Western Panjabi: “زنگو دریا”
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