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The Amazon has no bridges over its main channel

No road crosses the river's principal course at any point along its length The main stem runs through floodplain that shifts with the seasons and carries very little road traffic, so no bridge spans it. The bridge at Manaus, opened in 2011, crosses the Rio Negro rather than the Amazon itself. Ferries carry vehicles across at the few places where roads meet the water. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: No road crosses the river's principal course at any point along its length. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.