SP-160

Immigrants Highway (SP-160) - the road in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, built above the trees.





The highway connects the city of São 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 on weekends. Highway has 44 viaducts, 7 bridges and 11 tunnels, length 58, 5 km. This highway is the pride of the Brazilian road construction, with long tunnels and high six-lane bridges, careening 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.
Views from the highway, especially on the coast, incredibly beautiful. On sunny weekend on the highway passing more than 1 million. Cars on the ocean beaches.



Immigrants highway was opened in 1974, and built by 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. Here the use of higher building standards, there are a large number of bands and therefore 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 well as highway Ansheta, highway Immigrants controlled by the state government appointed a private company Ecovias, which takes fare.
Both sleeves highway can completely convert the opposite direction, 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.













































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