Rodovia dos Tamoios

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SP-099
Rodovia dos Tamoios
SP-55 - Rodovia Doutor Manuel Hipólito Rego
South endAv. Pres. Campos Salles in Caraguatatuba, SP
Location
CountryBrazil
StateSão Paulo
Highway system

Rodovia dos Tamoios (official designation SP-099) is a

Brazilian state of São Paulo
.

The highway is a dual carriageway running from the city of São José dos Campos, located in the Paraíba River valley in the upper plateau of São Paulo down the Serra do Mar to the coastal lowlands of the city of Caraguatatuba, connecting to the Rodovia Rio-Santos (federal highway). As such, it is part of a series of Serra do Mar highways which include Rodovia Anchieta (SP-150) and Rodovia dos Imigrantes (SP-160), departing from São Paulo, the Mogi das Cruzes-Bertioga highway, and the Taubaté-Ubatuba highway. The SP-099 starts at the Rodovia Presidente Dutra, and crosses with Rodovia Carvalho Pinto (SP-070), two huge thoroughfares which direct the road flow from and to São Paulo megalopolis to the Northern coast beach resorts.

The road is thus named in order to remember the

Santos to Espírito Santo
at the time of discovery, in 1500. It was managed and maintained by the Department of Roads of the State of São Paulo (DER) until April 18, 2015. Now it's maintained by Ecopistas and Concessionária Tamoios. Toll was not required until 2016.

The section crossing the

reais. One of the tunnels, with a length of 5,555 meters, is the longest road tunnel in Brazil.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Após três atrasos, Governo de SP entrega duplicação do trecho de serra da Rodovia dos Tamoios" (in Portuguese). g1. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2023.