The city of Anapu lies rougly 140km east of the river Xingú along the Transamazonic Highway. The city is literally spread out along the road, the commerce and hotels scattered over a paved section of the infamous dirt highway that stretches across the Amazon. There are roughly 20,000 people living here; almost everyone is from somewhere else. Thirty years ago, the city was no more then a small villa - the highway in it's infancy. To understand the region of Transamazonia it's necessary to step back some 40 years. In the 1970's, the military government began a project to colonize and utilize the Amazon. The first step was the construction of the road, a giant highway the fluctuates between suffocating dust in the summer to impassable mud in the winter (and has changed little today). The
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