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Carajás Railway
The Carajás Railway (; EFC or EF-315) is a railway line linking the cities of Parauapebas, Pará and São Luís, Maranhão, in Brazil. The line is one of the few in Brazil to carry passengers as well as cargo. It is one of the largest passenger railways in operation in Brazil, with five stations and ten stops, covering São Luís, Santa Inês, Açailândia, Marabá and Parauapebas. However, the EF-315 is specialized in transporting mineral cargo, extracted from the Serra dos Carajás mines, and taken to the ports of São Marcos Bay in Maranhão for export. It transports over 120 million tons of cargo and 350,000 passengers a year. The EF-315 is also interconnected with two other railway lines: São Luís–Teresina Railway and Norte-Sul Railway. The first crosses states in the Northeast region and the second crosses the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Goiás, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, facilitating the export of grains and industrialized products through the Port of Itaqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inter-city Rail
Inter-city rail services are express passenger train services that run services that connect cities over longer distances than commuter or regional trains. There is no precise definition of inter-city rail; its meaning may vary from country to country. Most broadly, it can include any rail services that are neither short-distance commuter rail trains within one city area, nor slow regional rail trains calling at all stations and covering local journeys only. Most typically, an inter-city train is an express train with limited stops and comfortable carriages to serve long-distance travel. Inter-city rail sometimes provides international services. This is most prevalent in Europe, due to the close proximity of its 50 countries in a 10,180,000 square kilometre (3,930,000 sq mi) area. Eurostar and EuroCity are examples of this. In many European countries the word "InterCity" or "Inter-City" is an official brand name for a network of regular-interval, relatively long-distance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pará (state)
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree groves), cassava, açaí, pineapple, cocoa, black pepper, coconut, banana, tropical hardwoods such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maranhão
Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent inside the common Northeastern Brazilian dialect. Maranhão is described in books such as '' The Land of the Palm Trees'' by Gonçalves Dias and ''Casa de Pensão'' by Aluísio Azevedo. The dunes of Lençóis are an important area of environmental preservation. Also of interest is the state capital of São Luís, designated a Unesco World Heritage Site. Another important conservation area is the Parnaíba River delta, between the states of Maranhão and Piauí, with its lagoons, desert dunes and deserted beaches or islands, such as the Caju island, which shelters rare birds. Geography The northern portion of the state is a heavily forested plain traversed by numerous rivers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vale S
A vale is a type of valley. Vale may also refer to: Places Georgia * Vale, Georgia, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region Norway * Våle, a historic municipality Portugal * Vale (Santa Maria da Feira), a former civil parish in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira Romania * Vale, a village in Aluniş Commune, Cluj County * Vale, a village in Toplița city, Harghita County * Vale ( hu, Vále, link=no), a village in Săliște town, Sibiu County United Kingdom * Vale, Guernsey, a parish in Guernsey * Vale of Glamorgan, a county borough in South Wales, commonly referred to as "The Vale" * Vale of Leven, an area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, also knownas "The Vale" United States * Vale, Avery County, North Carolina * Vail, Colorado * Vale, Lincoln County, North Carolina * Vale, Oregon * Vale, South Dakota * Vale, West Virginia * Vale Summit, Maryland * Vale Township, Butte County, South Dakota * Vale Tunnel, Raytown, Missouri * Lyman Estate, known as "The Vale", Walth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parauapebas
Parauapebas is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. Geography To the north is the municipality of Marabá; to the east, Curionópolis; to the south-east, Canaã dos Carajás; to the south, Água Azul do Norte; to the south-west, Ourilândia do Norte, and to the west, São Félix do Xingu. The municipality contains part of the Tapirapé-Aquiri National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1989. It contains 68.9% of the Carajás National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore. Carajás Mine is located in the boundaries of the municipality. Transport There are direct road connections with Marabá to the north-east, Curionópolis to the east, and Canaã dos Carajás to the south. One of Brazil's only inter-city rail services (Carajás Railway) is operated by rail freight operator Vale and links São Luís with Parauapeba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Luís, Maranhão
São Luís (, ''Saint Louis'') is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The city is located on São Luís Island, Upaon-açu Island (Big Island, in Tupi language, Tupi Language) or São Luís island, Ilha de São Luís (''Saint Louis' Island''), in the Baía de São Marcos (''Saint Mark's Bay''), an extension of the Atlantic Ocean which forms the estuary of Pindaré River, Pindaré, Mearim River, Mearim, Itapecuru River, Itapecuru and other rivers. Its coordinates are 2.53° south, 44.30° west. São Luís has the second largest maritime extension within Brazilian states. Its maritime extension is 640 km (397 miles). The city proper has a population of some 1,108,975 people (2020 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE estimate). The metropolitan area totals 1,605,305, ranked as the List of largest cities in Brazil, 15th largest in Brazil. São Luís, created originally as ''Saint-Louis-de-Maragnan'', is the only Brazilian state capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Inês
Santa Inês is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the states of Brazil, state of Maranhão in the Nordeste, North-East region of Brazil. .Geography: the climate of city is tropical with dry season. The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1991 that has been a Ramsar Site since 2000..Was emancipated from Pindaré Mirim in 1967. The city has one of the most important railway stations on the Carajás Railway line. See also *List of municipalities in Maranhão References Municipalities in Maranhão {{Maranhão-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Açailândia
Açailândia () is a Brazilian municipality in the western part of Maranhão State, at an elevation of . Its population in 2020 was estimated to be 113,121, making it the eighth largest city in the state. The name of the city means "land of the açaí." The city is an important center of agribusiness, the area having the largest cattle stock in Maranhão. The production of pig iron is the municipality's biggest single economic activity. Açailândia is part of the Carajas Development Corridor and the city houses many of the workers who produce charcoal in the area. The city has one of the most important railway stations on the Carajás Railway The Carajás Railway (; EFC or EF-315) is a railway line linking the cities of Parauapebas, Pará and São Luís, Maranhão Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 mill ... line. Açailândia's origins are recent, lying in the construction of the Belém-Bras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carajás Mine , a large SUV produced in Brazil
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Carajás may refer to: * Carajás Mine * Carajás Airport * Canaã dos Carajás * Eldorado dos Carajás * Carajás (proposed Brazilian state) * ''Carajas'' (spider) * Karajá or Carajás, an indigenous tribe of Brazil * Gurgel Carajás Gurgel Carajás was a Brazilian car, a SUV, produced by Gurgel between late 1984 and January, 1991. All Carajás were 4 x 2 drive, but they were produced with three engine options: gasoline and ethanol with 1800cc, and diesel with 1600cc. It had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Marcos Bay
SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U.S. * SAO, the ICAO airline designator for Sahel Aviation Service, Mali * SAO, the IATA airport code for airports in the São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil * Serb Autonomous Regions during the breakup of Yugoslavia * São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil Science * Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. ** Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, which assigns SAO catalogue entries * Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS) Entertainment * '' Sword Art Online'', a Japanese light novel series ** ''Sword Art Online'' (2012 TV series), an anime adaptation of the light novels * Sao Sao Sao, a Thai pop music trio Other uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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