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Transamazonian highway, Portuguese Rodovia Transamazônica, system of paved and unpaved roads in Brazil that is designed to facilitate settlement and exploitation of the vast underpopulated Amazon River Basin. The system consists of several major parts. A 3,400-mile (5,100-kilometre) east-west segment extends from Recife, on the Atlantic coast, through Marabá, Itaituba, Humaitá, and Rio Branco to Cruzeiro do Sul, on the Peruvian border. The two major north-south links are Rio de Janeiro–Brasília–Porto Franco–Belém and São Paulo–Cuiabá–Santarém, further west. An additional road links Cuiabá northwestward with the Transamazonian highway at Humaitá and continues northward to Manaus and beyond to the partially completed Northern Perimeter Highway.
The rapid pace of construction of this road system has raised serious questions about the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest’s fragile ecology and of the region’s aboriginal Indian population in the face of the growing numbers of Brazilian farmers, loggers, and miners who now have access to the Amazon Basin. None of these fears, however, was expected to alter Brazil’s determination to provide an outlet for its burgeoning population and a means of exploiting the enormous, so far almost untapped, mineral wealth of the basin, which includes bauxite, copper, iron, manganese, petroleum, and tin.
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Brazil has 1,751,868 kilometres of roads, 96,353 km of them paved & 1,655,515 km unpaved. That means that only 5.5% of roads are paved & that 94.5% are unpaved. The most important highway of the country is BR-116 and the second is BR-101. Transmazonian highway, Portuguese Rodovia Transamozonica, system of paved & unpaved roads in Brazil that is designed to facilitate settlement & exploitation of the vast underpopulated Amazon River Basin. The system consists of several major parts.... Brazil's highest mountain is less tgan 10,000feet high.