page_title: Francisco Prestes Maia
section_title: Rodovia Prestes Maia (BR-101)
hierarchical_section_title: Francisco Prestes Maia / Toponyms / Roadways / Rodovia Prestes Maia (BR-101)
caption_attribution_description: Português: Mapa da BR-101
context_page_description: Francisco Prestes Maia was a Brazilian architect, civil engineer, urban planner, and professor, who served three terms as mayor of the city of São Paulo.
context_section_description: Brazil's longest highway, BR-101, is also still popularly known as Rodovia Prestes Maia for much of its 4,800 km (3,000 mi), despite having been officially renamed more than a decade ago to honor another politician from São Paulo, Mário Covas.
  Rodovia Governador Mário Covas, as BR-101 has officially been known since 2001, passes through twelve Brazilian coastal states in three of the country's five geographic regions:
  Northeast
  Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia
  Southeast
  Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
  South
  Paraná, Santa Catarina,  Rio Grande do Sul
caption: Map of BR-101
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