Xingu River - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The name is the title of a humorous Edith Wharton short story from 1911.
• "Xingu" is the title of a song on Waterfall Cities, a 1999 album by Ozric Tentacles.
• The river is also honoured in the album Aguas da Amazonia.
• A beer produced near the river is sold in the international market under the name "Xingu".
• In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey/Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun.
• It is the name of a Brazilian 2012 movie, directed by famous Brazilian film-maker Cao Hamburger. The movie tells the story of the Villas-Bôas brothers 1943 expedition to the region, which led to the creation of the indigenous reserve twenty years later.