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Old 03-26-2009, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by crispus View Post
Xingu is apparently correct (for the first several: all the pictures I checked) since that's the name they have at Flickr; that's apparently, though, only a generic term for any of the tribes (Kayapo, Suya, Juruna, Trumai: credit to amazon-indians.org) living in the Xingu Indigenous Park area...
Xingu is the name of the river that runs north to south into the region. Presumably, all of the various "Xingu" tribes live along the river.

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