STRANGE but TRUE

There are no bridges over the Amazon River, simply because for most of its 600-odd kilometre course from the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic, it flows through dense tropical rainforest, with very few roads and towns. Crossings, when needed, are by boat. In 2010, the first bridge was built over one of the river’s more than 1 100 tributaries, the Rio Negro, in the tourist hotspot of Manaus.