IN PROFILE

Colonel Cândido Rondon was an army engineer who laid more than 4,000 milesof 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–

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1913–14. In 1910, he was appointed the director of the Indian Protection Service (SPI). He encouraged the later creation of the Xingu National Park,a territory where both indigenous people and the environment are protected.In Brazil, Rondon isa national hero, and the state of Rondônia is named after him.