• The Trans-Amazonian Railway is a proposed transcontinental railway through the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. The project was conceived in...
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    The Trans-Amazonian Highway (official designation BR-230, official name Rodovia Transamazônica Portuguese pronunciation: [ho.doˈvi.ɐ tɾɐ̃.za.maˈzõ.ni...
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    connect with the West-East Integration Railway (FIOL) in Figueirópolis (TO) and with the Trans-Amazonian Railway in Mara Rosa (GO). In Anápolis (GO), north–south...
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    districts and the regional capital of Cochabamba. Another railway was a local line in the Amazonian jungle. The Madeira-Mamoré Railroad runs in a 365 kilometres...
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  • gets on the wrong flight with the cockroaches as the pilots. 57a 5a "Trans-Amazonian" "(Transamazonienne)" Olivier Jean-Marie Olivier Jean-Marie François...
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    guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle. The number of attacks against pipelines began declining substantially...
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    Brazilian railway network has an extension of about 30,000 kilometers. It is basically used for transporting ores. Chile has almost 7,000 km of railways, with...
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    completely in 1972. That year the Trans-Amazonian highway (BR-230) opened. Today, from a total of 364 km of length of railway, about seven remain in active...
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    invertebrates are abundant, including the world's largest centipede, the Amazonian giant centipede. Jamaica is the home to about 150 species of butterflies...
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    electronic "moose detection system" was installed on two sections of the Trans-Canada Highway in Newfoundland in 2011, but the system proved unreliable...
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  • from around 3 billion tonnes; Antonio Nobre of the National Institute of Amazonian Research - he found that the Amazon forest, and its 500 million hectares...
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    contact, create inter-group conflicts, such as seen between indigenous Amazonian tribes and loggers or gold miners. Additionally, increased road access...
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    denominated Peripheral Depression of the South of Pará, where they dominate the amazonian plateaus. The vegetation cover of the municipality of Marabá is quite...
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    when he had to join a ship in Japan and so crossed from UK on the Trans-Siberian Railway. While hitchhiking to the ship in Kobe, George was picked up by...
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    ISBN 978-1000071825. van Driem, George (2013). "Trans-Himalayan". In Owen-Smith, Thomas; Hill, Nathan (eds.). Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive...
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    The rubber boom in the Amazon in the 1880s–1910s radically reshaped the Amazonian economy. For example, it turned the remote poor jungle village of Manaus...
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    et al. (Mar 2017). "Cannabis in Eurasia: origin of human use and Bronze Age trans-continental connections". Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 26 (2):...
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    populations, such as the Spinifex People, the Sentinelese, and various Amazonian tribes, which still make use of Stone Age technology, and have not developed...
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    purchase seeds in the North, which helps maintain the highest added value of Amazonian guarana. The pharmaceutical industries and importers, on the other hand...
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    structure among the converts has also been a concern. The Huaorani people of Amazonian Ecuador have had a well-documented mixed relation with Evangelical Christian...
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    some of the northern peoples (i.e., Inuit), some peoples in the Yucatán, Amazonian forest dwellers, and various Andean groups. Of these, the Quechua people...
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    Trans-Amazonian highway, but known as BR-230 which runs through the city....
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    Brazil is founded in Rio de Janeiro. 29 October: The National Institute of Amazonian Research is created through Decree 31,672. 14 December: The city of Paranavaí...
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