The Culuene River, or Kuluene River is a 600 km tributary of
Xingu River in
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring ...
, a state in western
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. 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 tribes of Xingu in ...
. The
Culuene Biological Reserve
The Culuene Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica Culuene) is a biological reserve in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
It protects an area of cerrado forest in contact with seasonal deciduous forest on the left (west) bank of the Culuene Ri ...
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 f ...
References
Rivers of Mato Grosso
Rivers of Xingu Indigenous Park
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