Highways over the trees: Highway immigrants (26 photos) Bashny.Net

Highway immigrants or births dos Imigrantis (port. Rodovia dos Imigrantes, the official designation SP-160) - highway in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. The highway connects the city of Sao Paulo to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the cities on the coast of São Vicente and Praia Grande. The highway runs parallel to the old highway Ansheta and is also one of the busiest highways in Brazil, especially in the weekend Highway has 44 viaducts, 7 bridges and 11 tunnels, length 58, 5 km. This highway is the pride of the Brazilian road construction, long six-lane tunnels and high bridges, speeding over the tropical Atlantic forest covering the slopes of the Serra do Mar, a coastal mountain range up to 800 m, which separates the plateau of Sao Paulo from the coast.

The views from the highway, particularly on the coast, incredibly beautiful. On sunny weekends of highway passing more than 1 million. Vehicles on the ocean beaches.

Immigrants Highway was opened in 1974 and built from the inability of the highway Ansheta cope with a large number of cars. Although the highway Immigrants Ansheta somewhat longer, but it passing more cars. Then use higher standards of construction, a large number of bands and thus provides a higher top speed.

The name of the highway was due to the fact that in this way the city is often the first time it arrived residents and notes the importance of this great cultural, economic and social role of immigrants in the country's development.

As Ansheta highway, highway Immigrants controlled by the State Government appointed a private company Ecovias, who takes tolls.

Both sleeves highway can completely reversing the direction of motion is reversed, depending on the needs of the movement can be performed bidirectionally and unidirectionally upward or mountains. In the latter case, the motion in the opposite direction is carried out on the highway Ansheta.