Showing posts with label 🇧🇷 Brazil. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Fordlândia: Henry Ford's All-American Rubber Boom "Utopia" In The Amazon

3°49'48.05"S 55°29'48.34"W

(from Wikimedia Commons)

    Deep in the Amazonian jungle, next to the course of the Tapajós River, a depressing deteriorated landscape fills the atmosphere with a quirky sensation of failure mixed with grief and fear. Haunted and heartbreaking at the same time, the landscape of a rotten utopia which had died just after its birth depicts concrete structures overgrown by lianes, an empty factory with smashed windows and a lone-standing water tower witnessing how the years pass. Uncover the history of Fordlândia, the abandoned multimillionaire mega-project that wears the name of one of the most curious industrialists of history.