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    Cândido Rondon

    Mar 18, 2021 2 minutes

    1865-1958

    IN PROFILE

    olonel Candido Rondon was an army engineer who laid more than 4,000 miles of telegraph line through the jungles of Brazil. His expeditions into the Amazon included exploring the Western Amazon Basin, but his most famous was the Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition in 1913-14. In 1910, he was appointed the director

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