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Trans-Amazon Highway

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Trans-Amazon Highway, road, c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) long, traversing N central Brazil. The highway, stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Peruvian border, is an important factor in the economic development of the Amazon region.
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Bulldozers pushed the Trans-Amazon Highway far into the jungle.
Lost in space: a military vision of Brazil in space finds itself ... by Galanternick, Mery / Latin Trade
Until 1960, when the Trans-Amazon Highway was built, getting to the rain forest was difficult.
BRAZIL Forgotten Giant by Bishop, Randa / Junior Scholastic
The country did, after all, build the Trans-Amazon Highway about four decades ago to connect the Brazilian western frontier to the Atlantic, opening the possibility of an Atlantic-Pacific corridor.
Amazon Access by FABEY, MICHAEL / Latin Trade
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