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BR-267 (Brazil highway)

highway in Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ8239000 ↗
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The BR-267 is a Brazilian federal highway that crosses the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul.

It originates in the municipality of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, at the junction with Highway BR-116 and continues to the Brazil–Paraguay border in Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul.

BR-267 has a total length of 1,922 km (1,194 mi), including 533 km in Minas Gerais, 706 km in São Paulo and 683 km in Mato Grosso do Sul. In Minas Gerais, on the stretch between Juiz de Fora and Poços de Caldas, it is called Rodovia Vital Brazil, with a project to change it to Rodovia Presidente Itamar Franco.

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This entry incorporates text from “BR-267 (Brazil highway)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.