Rodovia Santos Dumont is a highway

Highway

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 in the state of São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

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It runs in a North-South direction and interconnects the cities of Campinas

Campinas

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, Indaiatuba

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, Salto

Salto

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, Itu

Itu

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 and Sorocaba

Sorocaba

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, crossing with two other major highways, Rodovia Castelo Branco

Rodovia Castelo Branco

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, nearby Sorocaba, and the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes

Rodovia dos Bandeirantes

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 nearby Campinas, thus forming a vertex of the Macrometropolitan Highway Ring of São Paulo. At the km 66 of Rodovia Santos Dumont there is the Viracopos Airport.

The highway honours the Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont , was a Brazilian early pioneer of aviation. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos Dumont dedicated himself to science studies in Paris, France, where he spent most of his adult life....

, considered the "father of aviation

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". Santos Dumont was born in the town of Palmira (today called Santo Dumont) in the state of Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

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 but at one point in his life he also studied in Campinas. Rodovia Santos Dumont is a road system managed and maintained through a state concession to private company Colinas

Colinas

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, and therefore it is a toll road

Toll road

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