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Juína
Marcelândia
Confresa
Nobres
Nossa Senhora
do Livramento
Nova Monte
Verde
Novo Mundo
Porto Alegre do Norte
Nova Olímpia
Colniza
Peixoto do
Azevedo
Villa Rica
Cana Brava
do Norte
Aripuana
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a
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a
Villabela
Poxoréo
Cuiabá
Cáceres
Guiratinga
Rondonópolis
Primavera
do l’este
BOLIVIA
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso
do Sul
Goiàs
Rondônia
Amazonas
Parà
Tocantins
Santo Antonio
Source: based on a map from Nieves Lopez and Riccardo
Pravettoni. IBGE, 2008; Commissao Pastoral da Terra, 2008.
Extensive soy belt
Remaining forest, 2006
Deforested areas, from 2000 to 2006
homicides due to land
issues from 2000 to 2007
Familes in conflict for
land related issues
in 2007
730
350
230
20
Land competition
Main roads
Roads planned
or in construction
Each spot represents
a single homicide
Forest, crops and the people
A land competition conflict in Brazil