Xingú

American  

[shing-goo] / ʃɪŋˈgu /

noun

1. a river flowing N through central Brazil to the Amazon. 1,300 miles (2,090 km) long.

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Xingú British  

/ ʃiŋˈɡu /

noun

1. a river in central Brazil, rising on the Mato Grosso plateau and flowing north to the Amazon delta, with over 650 km (400 miles) of rapids in its middle course. Length: 1932 km (1200 miles)

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Example Sentences

The Amazon, as it leaps from the Andes, and as far down as the Ucayali, is blue, passing into a clear olive-green; likewise the Pastassa, Huallaga, Tapajos, Xingú, and Tocantíns.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James

In ten hours more we were taking in wood at Porto do Moz, situated just within the mouth of the Xingú, the last great tributary to the Amazon.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James

They chugged slowly westward up the forest-walled river, an obscure tributary that flowed somewhere into the Xingú.

From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert

In addition, Dr. Hermann Meyer's private colonies of Xingú and Neu Württemberg were founded in this period; the former in 1897 and the latter in 1899.

From The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect by Schappelle, Benjamin Franklin

Where the Xingú comes in, the Amazon is ten miles wide, but it is soon divided by a series of islands, the first of which is Grand Island.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James