North

RO

Rondônia

Amazon frontier and Madeira river

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Rondônia is a frontier Amazon state carved out of rainforest by settlers in the 1970s and 80s, now a center of cattle ranching and agribusiness. Porto Velho, its capital on the Madeira River, grew up around the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad — one of the most ambitious engineering projects of the early 20th century, built at enormous human cost to link landlocked Bolivia to the Atlantic.

Capital

Porto Velho

Region

North

Estado

RO

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