Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten company towns – in pictures

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For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon the buildings and workers.

The remains show human resilience as nature reclaims the land

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