BR-101 (Brazil highway)

Its northern terminus is located in the city of Touros-RN and its southern terminus is located in São José do Norte-RS.

It follows virtually the entire east coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul. The highway has not been built between two stretches between Peruíbe (SP) and Iguape (SP), and between Cananéia (SP) and Garuva (SC).

Between Curitiba and Garuva (SC), the highway was replaced by the BR 101 / BR 376 and was widened by the Paraná government, not by the federal government.

The northern section between Curitiba and the border with São Paulo was not built to preserve an area of the Atlantic Forest.

The

Duplication

In the southern region of the country, the 312 km section between Curitiba and Florianópolis doubled completely around the year 2000. In 2005, the duplication of the 350 km section between Palhoça – SC and Osório – RS began. The 88.5 kilometers of the Rio Grande do Sul section were delivered only in February 2011; in the southern state of Santa Catarina, the delay was even longer: in 2018, 14.5 km (10 km in Laguna and 2 km in Tubarão) had yet to double. In 2019, the section was completed and opened to traffic.^[5]

In the Southeast Region of the country, in 2009, the duplication of 26 km between the Santa Cruz district, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, to the Itacuruçá district, in the municipality of Mangaratiba, was opened to the public, a section located in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro, near the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The urban section that comprises Avenida Brasil is 58 km long and is completely duplicated and is administered by the municipality of Rio de Janeiro and ends near the beginning of the Río – Niterói Bridge. The bridge is about 13 km long. Between the capital of Rio de Janeiro and the city of Campos, the stretch between Niterói and Rio Bonito has already doubled since the 1980s. The 176.6 km stretch between Rio Bonito and Campos dos Goytacazes was awarded to the company Arteris in 2008, for 30 years. The duplication work started in 2011, and in 2018 the company had already duplicated 126.3 km.^[6][7]

In the Northeast Region of the country, the BR-101 section in the northeast, between

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  BR-101 in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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  BR-101 in João Pessoa, Paraíba
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  Section of the BR-101 on the border between the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.
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  BR-101 in Alagoas, 2012, before the duplication
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  BR-101 in Sergipe, 2012, before the duplication
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  BR-101 in Itamaraju, Bahia
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  BR-101 in São Mateus, Espírito Santo, 2012
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  The

  Rio-Niterói Bridge, a section of the BR-101 over Guanabara Bay between the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói

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  Section of the Rio-Santos highway between Juqueí and Praia Preta, in São Sebastião, São Paulo
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  BR-101 in Santa Catarina
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  BR-101 in Capivari do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
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  BR-101 in Lagoa do Peixe National Park, Rio Grande do Sul

See also

• Transport in Brazil

References