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My Scholarship entry - life in Açailândia

Brazil | Thursday, November 13, 2014 | 5 photos

The Carajás Railway has 557.5 miles of extension (892 km) and crosses 25 small towns. Along the Carajás Railway there are 14 siderurgies concentrated in a ray of 15 miles. The composition of trains with three engines and 312 railway wagons. Açailândia is a strategic town, in the interior of Maranhão state, that the Carajás Railway is connected with the North-South Railway. This economic model is destructive, because it employs very few people in comparison with other possible ways of utilizing the land, and affects people’s health through the emission of extreme pollution.