Amazon Justice Boat

A man crosses a branch of the Amazon River near Vila Progresso in the Balique island arquipelago of the Amazon river delta of Brazil's northern Amapa state, Dec. 6, 2004. The village is served every two months by a boat carrying some 40 people from the justice department and other state agencies who travel 12 hours from the state capital Macapa, in an effort to include the population in the state system. It is a unique Brazilian solution to the immense geography of the Amazon, where roads do not exist and travel is costly and slow. People who once lived their whole lives with no records of birth, mariage, death, or even ID cards, are no longer forgotton by the state in this real life waterworld. (AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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A man crosses a branch of the Amazon River near Vila Progresso in the Balique island arquipelago of the Amazon river delta of Brazil's northern Amapa state, Dec. 6, 2004. The village is served every two months by a boat carrying some 40 people from the justice department and other state agencies who travel 12 hours from the state capital Macapa, in an effort to include the population in the state system. It is a unique Brazilian solution to the immense geography of the Amazon, where roads do not exist and travel is costly and slow. People who once lived their whole lives with no records of birth, mariage, death, or even ID cards, are no longer forgotton by the state in this real life waterworld. (AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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