Brazil road map
Brazilian roads are the primary carriers of freight and passenger traffic. The road system totaled 1.98 million km in 2002. The total of paved roads increased from 35,496 km in 1967 to 184,140 km in 2002.
The first major investments in road infrastructure started in the 1920s, the government of Washington Luis, being pursued in the governments of Getúlio Vargas and Eurico Gaspar Dutra. President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956–61), who designed and built the capital Brasília, was another supporter of highways. Map 2016
