BR-101
The BR-101 (official name: Rodovia Governador Mário Covas) is one of the two main highways in Brazil, along with BR-116. It is a federal highway that begins in the municipality of Touros, located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and ends in the municipality of São José do Norte, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Together with BR-471, it forms part of the translitorânea highway, which ends at Arroyo Chuy, on the border with Uruguay.
It crosses twelve Brazilian states: Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, with a total extension of 4,772, 4 kilometers.
It follows a North-South direction along practically the entire eastern Brazilian coast, from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul. It has two sections not yet built: between the cities of Peruíbe and Iguape, both within the state of São Paulo; and between the municipalities of Cananéia (São Paulo) and Garuva (Santa Catarina).
Duplication
In the South Region of the country, the 312 km section between Curitiba and Florianópolis doubled completely around the year 2000. In 2005, the doubling of the 350 km section between Palhoça - SC and Osório - RS began. The 88.5 kilometers of the Rio Grande do Sul stretch were delivered only in February 2011; in the south of the state of Santa Catarina, the delay was even greater: in 2018, 14.5 km (10 km in Laguna and 2 km in Tubarão) still had to be doubled. In 2019, the section was completely completed and delivered to the population.
In the Southeast Region of the country, in 2009, the doubling of 26 km between the district of Santa Cruz, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, to the district of Itacuruçá, in the municipality of Mangaratiba, was opened to the public, a section located in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro, near the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The urban section comprising Avenida Brasil is 58 km long and fully duplicated and is administered by the municipality of Rio de Janeiro and ends near the beginning of the Rio-Niterói Bridge. The bridge is about 13 km long. Between the capital of Rio de Janeiro and the city of Campos, the stretch between Niterói and Rio Bonito has already doubled since the 1980s. The 176.6 km stretch between Rio Bonito and Campos dos Goytacazes was awarded to the company Arteris in 2008, for 30 years. Duplication works began in 2011, and by 2018, the company had already duplicated 126.3 km.
In the Northeast Region of the country, the BR-101 section in the northeast, between Natal and Salvador, has been doubled since 2005. Not yet completed, it is expected to be completed in 2021. About 70 km that cut through the Metropolitan Region from Recife were already doubled before 2005. In the 688 km section that connects the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Alagoas (section between Natal-RN, João Pessoa-PB, Recife-PE, Maceió-AL and the AL-SE border), the road is almost completely duplicated. In February 2019, there was a 59 km section in Alagoas, between São Miguel and Río Largo, scheduled to open in the second half of 2020. A 10 km section in the indigenous reserve in Joaquim Gomes-AL is pending release for construction. In Sergipe, the works are advancing slowly, with no completion forecast. In the state of Sergipe, the 67 km section between Aracaju and Estância has been completed and the link between Maruim and Propriá is almost interrupted, with the Brazilian army only carrying out works. At the end of 2018, 18 km duplicated in this section were delivered. The Bahia section, with no completion forecast, will be 165.4 kilometers from Feira de Santana to the border with the state of Sergipe. Another part will double from Eunápolis to the border with Espírito Santo.
Tour
Connects, among others, the following cities:
Rio Grande do Norte
- Touros - North end
- Rio do Fogo
- Maxaranguape
- Ceará-Mirim
- São Gonçalo do Amarante
- Natal
- Parnamirim
- São José do Mipibu
- Goianinha
- Canguaretama
Paraíba
- Mamanguape
- Itapororoca
- Capim
- Cuité de Mamanguape
- Santa Rita
- Bayeux
- João Pessoa
- Conde
- Alhandra
- Caaporã
Pernambuco
The highway works are in the final stage in the section that goes from the state border with Paraíba to the municipality of Palmares. The section that refers to the surroundings of Recife, beyond being a highway, needs repairs and improvements, the tender for its recovery had no proposals.
The section of approximately 25 kilometers, at the access to Catende, within the municipality of Palmares, and the state border with Alagoas, was tendered in December 2009 and the works are in their final phase.
- Goiana
- Igaraçu
- Abreu e Lima
- Recife
- Jaboatão dos Guararapes
- Cabo de Santo Agostinho
- Escada
- Ribeirão
- Palmares
- Xexéu
Alagoas
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To complete the works on the BR-101 highway, within the state of Alagoas, it was divided into six lots, two of which have already been tendered and the works are already in their initial stages. The sixth batch will be executed by the 2nd Construction Engineering Battalion of the Brazilian Army.
- Novo Lino
- Colônia Leopoldina
- Joaquim Gomes
- Flexeiras
- Messiah
- Rio Largo
- Maceió
- Pilar
- São Miguel dos Campos
- Campo Alegre
- Teotônio Vilela
- Junqueiro
- São Sebastião
- Porto Real do Colégio
Sergipe
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- Propriate
- Japaratuba
- Carmopolis
- Nossa Senhora do Socorro
- Itaporanga d'Ajuda
- Estância
- Umbaúba
- Cristinapolis
Bay
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- Esplanade
- Between Rios
- Alagoinhas
- Governador Mangabeira
- Cruz das Almas
- Holy Antônio de Jesus
- Valença
- Gandu
- Ubaitaba
- Ubaitaba
- Itabuna
- Itabuna
- Eunápolis
- Itamaraju
- Teixeira de Freitas
Espirito Santo
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- Pedro Canário
- São Mateus
- Linhares
- João Neiva
- Ibiraçu
- Fundão
- Serra
- Cariacica (the stretch between Serra and Cariacica is known as "Rodovia do Contorno", considered one of the most dangerous in the state of Espírito Santo, currently in automotive works)
- Viana
- Iconha
- Rio Novo do Sul
Rio de Janeiro
- Bom Jesus do Itabapoana - is located in motorway works to Campos dos Goytacazes.
- Campos dos Goytacazes
- Rio Bonito
- Itaborai
- São Gonçalo
- Niterói - connected to the city of Rio de Janeiro by the Rio-Niterói Bridge, which is also part of the BR-101
- Rio de Janeiro - Includes the north carioca region and the suburbs of Campo Grande and Santa Cruz (tramo with four lanes in every sense known as Avenida Brasil) to become part of the "Carretera Rio-Santos".
- Itaguaí
- Mangaratiba - Tram to Itacuruçá.
- Angra dos Reis
- Parati
Sao Paulo
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- Ubatuba
- Tram administered by the São Paulo government. It extends between Ubatuba and Miracatu. It presents three different names in its extension:
- Manuel Hipólito do Rego:
- Caraguatatuba
- São Sebastião
- Bertioga
- Road Cônego Domenico Rangoni:
- Santos
- Cubatão
- Carretera Padre Manuel da Nóbrega:
- São Vicente
- Praia Grande
- Mongaguá
- Itanhaém
- Peru
- Itariri
- Pedro de Toledo
- Miracatu
- There is a stage designed to connect Peruíbe to Iguape.
- Iguape - the stretch between Iguape and the state boundary with Paraná is under the administration of the state of São Paulo.
Paraná
The section that is located within the state of Paraná does not bear his name. Access to the municipality of Garuva, in the state of Santa Catarina, is via highways SP-226, BR-116 (to Curitiba) and BR-376.
Santa Catarina
- Garuva - restart of the road
- Joinville
- Navigators
- Itajaí
- Balneário Camboriú
- Tijucas
- São José
- Florianópolis
- Palhoça
- Tubarão
- Araranguá
- Shadow
Rio Grande do Sul
- Torres
- Dom Pedro de Alcântara
- Três Cachoeiras
- Três Forquilhas
- Terra de Areia
- Maquiné
- Osório
- Capivari do Sul
- Palmares do Sul
- Mostardas
- Tavares
- São José do Norte - South end point