Roadworks

LandRush - Frontier Land

LandRush - Frontier Land
Frauke Huber, Uwe H. Martin

The soya highway connects the enormous farms in west Brazil to the Amazon harbor of Santarem. The road is the artery through which life flows into the region. In just forty years the road opened up the wilderness to commercial development which renders the land from forest to industrial.

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Roadworks

Construction work on the BR-163, the "soy highway", which cuts through the Brazilian Amazon from north to south over a distance of 1,100 miles. 

Roadworks
Artist/Author: Uwe H. Martin Frauke Huber

Once a cratered dirt road, impassable in the rainy season, the highway was built in the 1970's. Today it is linking the agro-commodities production areas in Mato Grosso to the export ports in the Amazon River.