Xingu Indigenous Territory

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1. Story
2. A large demarcated indigenous territory in northern Mato Grosso, created in 1961 as the first reserve of its kind in Brazil and home to more than a dozen peoples of different language families. It is the most legible piece of evidence in the basin for what demarcation does, because the agricultural frontier reached it and stopped. On satellite imagery the territory appears as a block of continuous forest with a hard edge, surrounded by soy and pasture that runs up to the boundary and no further - an outline visible from orbit that is a legal line rather than a physical one. Its headwater position matters too: the streams that form the Xingu river rise in the cleared land to the south, so the territory's water quality is decided outside it. Protecting a forest does not protect a watershed.
3. Knowledge
4. Xingu Indigenous Territory
5. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
6. Connections
7. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
8. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
9. Xingu Indigenous Territory
10. Amazon Basin
11. Cerrado
12. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
13. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
14. Evidence
15. Supports the finding that Amazonian indigenous territories and protected areas hold a large share of regional forest carbon and remained close to carbon-neutral over the study period while lands outside them lost carbon. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the shares and flux values are deliberately not quoted.