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Link between the Amazonia and Brazilian Center-West, Rondônia began to develop its economic and tourist potential, mainly as of 1982, year in which stopped being territory to become state, and began to harness the farming sector and the production of the coffee.
Rondônia shares a strong tourist potential. Its forests, rivers, cascades, and their kitchen with fish, is some of the attractiveness. With 1,700 km. of extension, the Madeira river is the affluent major of the right margin of the Amazon river, also borders Porto Velho. To take a walk by its waters means to sail in the middle of the Amazonian Forest, observing centennial trees, exotic birds and sections of expresses. By the Madeira river do Cuniã is also arrived at the Lake, to 120 km. of the capital, one reserves biological with natural freshwater fish breeding ground, flown over frequently by flocks of birds.
Porto Velho, capital of the present state.
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Recommended visits
In Portho Velho:
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Madeira-Mamoré railroad, constructed in the heat of Amazonian Forest, began to construct in 1907 and it was finished in 1912. The works became paralyzed in several occasions, and definitively in 1972, maintaining in operation only a section of 7 km. used for the tourism, where are the ruins than it was Madeira-Mamoré and its stations. The passage reasons parallel to the curves of the Madeira river and is a stroll forest inside, through covered sections by unit of centennial trees of the Amazonian Forest.
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Railway museum.
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Museum of Rondônia, where are prehistoric animal fossils and a valuable patrimony of the natives who inhabited the region.
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To 18 kilometers of Porto Velho, it is the Cachoeira de Teotônio, of violent waters that contrast with the calm of Teotônio, a village of fishermen.
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