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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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    island nations in the Americas. However, highways from Venezuela link to Brazilian Trans-Amazonian highway that provides a southwest entrance to Guyana...
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  • communicated to the parties it would effect. An analogous project, the Trans-Amazonian Highway, had a markedly negative impact on native peoples.[citation needed]...
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    construction began on the Trans-Amazonian highway. This highway represented a major threat to the Amazon rainforest. The highway still has not been completed...
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  • of Pará. The title can refer to a deal or transaction, to the Trans-Amazonian Highway, but also to sexual intercourse. The film combines scripted scenes...
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    infrastructure projects mainly the Trans-Amazonian Highway (Transamazônica). The Trans-Amazonian Highway's three pioneering highways were completed within ten...
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    escalated after the construction of highways penetrating deep into the forest, such as the Trans-Amazonian Highway in 1972. Challenges arose in parts of...
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    the Madeira River. The city is served by Humaitá Airport. The Trans-Amazonian Highway passes through the city. The municipality contains part of the...
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  • Catalan finds the treasure, but an explosion set off by a nearby Trans-Amazonian Highway construction crew causes him to be buried with it. Adrien and Agnès...
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    regime. Large construction projects were undertaken, including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, the Itaipu Dam and Rio–Niterói bridge. On the other side, the...
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  • 74-year-old Agostinho José da Costa would have seen Dr. Brandão on the Trans-Amazonian Highway carrying a styrofoam box and a bloodstained machete. Another witness...
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    rainforest is relatively intact, although plans to extend the Trans-Amazonian Highway through the region would presumably cause widespread damage to...
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    Parakanã forced the Araweté to find more a secluded homeland. The Trans-Amazonian Highway cut through the Xingu region in the early 1970s. Fundação Nacional...
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  • Antônio de Matupi, also called Km 180, is a small town on the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The economy mainly depends...
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  • in 2008. To the north of the national park it is crossed by the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230), then runs through the Balata-Tufari National Forest,...
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    Boa Vista (Roraima), BR-210, BR-230 (Rodovia Transamazônica) The Trans-Amazonian Highway east from Itaituba (Para) 1266 km via Humaitá to Lábrea, mostly...
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    deforestation and selective extraction of timber, particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway and in the higher and more populated southern portions. The...
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    when highways such as the Belém-Brasilia Highway and the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Part of their lands separated by the Trans-Amazonian Highway was taken...
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    requested federal funds to complete major projects, such as the Trans-Amazonian Highway and the Tucuruí Dam. In the 1998 elections, Almir Gabriel ran for...
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  • important route taken by cattle ranchers and their cattle is the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Deforestation has been a significant source of pollution, biodiversity...
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    first in the Amazon. It was designed to be accessible via the trans-Amazonian highway, which ran through the park. By 1978 there were eighteen national...
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    the BR-364 highway from Cuiabá to Porto Velho and the BR-319 from there to Humaitá and also occurs along the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian Highway from Humaitá...
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    presence of two major highways - the Cuiabá-Santarém highway runs through its range in a north-south direction and the Trans-amazonian Highway in an east-west...
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    of service in the 1930s and completely in 1972. That year the Trans-Amazonian highway (BR-230) opened. Today, from a total of 364 km of length of railway...
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    2005. Further north in Amazonas the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) crosses the Aripuanã. North of the highway the river flows through the 751,302 hectares...
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    road network in the Amazonas (such as the introduction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway in the early 1970s) gave potential developers access to vast areas...
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  • Brazilian government in 1971 to facilitate the construction of the Trans-Amazonian highway system through Kayapo lands. Once Paiakan saw the nature of the...
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    Trans-Amazonian highway, but known as BR-230 which runs through the city....
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  • of the Amazonian area began with the creation of the Superintendence for the Development of the Amazon (SUDAM, 1966). The Trans-Amazonian Highway enabled...
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    The town is at an altitude of 257 m. Malta is linked with the Trans-Amazonian Highway. The name comes from the Portuguese freguesia of Malta [pt], in...
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