Turning off the highway past Olinda’s ugly industrial suburb of Paulista, the road wends its way through a rich green landscape of rolling hills and dense palm forest. The first town on the route, 25km from Olinda, is IGARASSU, an old colonial settlement built on a ridge rising out of a sea of palm […]
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Paved highways account for a meagre 0.2 million km, while unpaved highways add up to more than 1.8 million km.
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