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Ministry of Infrastructure resumes paving works at Transamazônica Trans-Amazon Highway, section duplicated between Campina Grande and Cabedelo. The BR-230 or Transamazônica is a transversal highway, considered the third longest highway in Brazil, with 4260 km in length, that connects the port city of Cabedelo in Paraíba with the municipality of Lábrea, in Amazonas, cutting through some of ...
The Trans-Amazonian Railway is a proposed transcontinental railway through the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.The project was conceived in 2013 and announced in 2015 by Chinese and Bolivian leaders as part of a larger plan to create a Chinese-funded transportation network to support Bolivian imports and exports. [2]
The Juruá–Purus moist forests (NT0133) is an ecoregion in northwest Brazil in the Amazon biome.The terrain is very flat and soils are poor. The rivers flood annually. There are no roads in the region, and the dense rainforest is relatively intact, although plans to extend the Trans-Amazonian Highway through the region would presumably cause widespread damage to the habi
Paiakan was hired by the Brazilian government in 1971 to facilitate the construction of the Trans-Amazonian highway system through Kayapo lands. [1] Once Paiakan saw the nature of the project first hand, he quit his job and began to mobilize his people against the project. [1]
BR-230 (Trans-Amazonian Highway) Canada. Manitoba Provincial Road 230; Newfoundland and Labrador Route 230; Prince Edward Island Route 230; Costa Rica.
The Xingu–Tocantins–Araguaia moist forests (NT0180) is an ecoregion in the eastern Amazon basin.It is part of the Amazon biome.The ecoregion is one of the most severely degraded of the Amazon region, suffering from large-scale deforestation and selective extraction of timber, particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway and in the higher and more populated southern portions.
It is north of the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230). It is bounded by the Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area (APA) to the west and by the Aripuanã National Forest to the south and east. [1] Both of these units were created at the same time as the Manicoré Biological Reserve. [2]
The “New Transamazonian Highway”: BR-319 and Its Current Environmental Degradation *This is about a similar highway, but not BR-230 exactly. Remote Sensing of Deforestation Along the Trans-Amazonian Highway Woosterbrazil 22:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)