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Tracing the Amazon from its headwaters... Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.2762023,-71.6326301,334m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/
by nkoren 8y ago
Tracing the Amazon from its headwaters...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.2762023,-71.6326301,334m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.2762023,-71.6326301,334m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.1768982,-71.6372406,233m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.1768982,-71.6372406,233m/da...
Here's a couple of bridges: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.8748328,-71.5192037,233m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.8748328,-71.5192037,233m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.8073581,-71.4882189,863m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.8073581,-71.4882189,863m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.7501513,-71.4792706,326m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.7501513,-71.4792706,326m/da...
Here's a bridge (with some spectacular ancient ruins just north of it, wow!): https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.7317275,-71.4653133,372m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.7317275,-71.4653133,372m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6865893,-71.4459353,271m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6865893,-71.4459353,271m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6503598,-71.4346162,335m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6503598,-71.4346162,335m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6068402,-71.4539496,370m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.6068402,-71.4539496,370m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.5375724,-71.4662274,376m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.5375724,-71.4662274,376m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4966649,-71.4655178,619m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4966649,-71.4655178,619m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4821393,-71.4651525,932m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4821393,-71.4651525,932m/da...
Here's a bridge, fascinating remnants of high-intensity agriculture in the area. Clearly supported a much larger population during pre-Columbian times: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4041017,-71.4689323,467m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.4041017,-71.4689323,467m/da...
Here's a couple of bridges, including a famous rope bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.3821426,-71.4849719,637m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.3821426,-71.4849719,637m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.2970991,-71.5081793,491m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.2970991,-71.5081793,491m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.2257273,-71.5213399,828m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.2257273,-71.5213399,828m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.1689771,-71.5576715,754m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.1689771,-71.5576715,754m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.1260513,-71.6607489,453m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.1260513,-71.6607489,453m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.9539948,-71.7544463,863m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.9539948,-71.7544463,863m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.932637,-71.7777958,853m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.932637,-71.7777958,853m/dat...
Here's a bridge, with Streetview! The former bridge looks pretty dodgy: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8145316,-71.8335396,3a,60y,18.5h,84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sv843XwPsUXbIPJanyqSdYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8145316,-71.8335396,3a,60y,...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8304518,-71.942204,375m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8304518,-71.942204,375m/dat...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8211571,-71.9706923,320m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.8211571,-71.9706923,320m/da...
Here's a bridge, with an ex-bridge just upstream: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.7749211,-72.0847456,168m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.7749211,-72.0847456,168m/da...
I don't understand why there's a bridge here, but there is: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.77597,-72.0966336,194m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.77597,-72.0966336,194m/data...
Here's a pre-bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.6966954,-72.2455627,451m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.6966954,-72.2455627,451m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.6901983,-72.3356296,515m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.6901983,-72.3356296,515m/da...
Here's a bridge, with more streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.5627059,-72.5751752,3a,60y,71.84h,91.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgeFdQ8Yatbwq3h3HcgQu_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.5627059,-72.5751752,3a,60y,...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4215974,-72.852207,437m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4215974,-72.852207,437m/dat...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4163366,-72.8835264,419m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4163366,-72.8835264,419m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4450156,-73.1816146,699m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.4450156,-73.1816146,699m/da...
Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.3103693,-73.329247,409m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.3103693,-73.329247,409m/dat...
Now we're starting to get into lowlands jungle, but still, here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.6227864,-73.7872767,846m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.6227864,-73.7872767,846m/da...
...And I believe that is indeed the last one.
- owlninja 8y agoDo the headwaters technically count as the Amazon River?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI really respect the work you've put in here, but all of those appear to be on the Apurimac River, a tributary of a tributary of a tributary of the Amazon.
- arcticfox 8y agoAt least in Brazil, it's not considered truly the Amazon until the Rio Solimões and Rio Negro combine, which makes sense, as they are the two enormous tributaries that combine to form the mega-river. You're splitting hairs here, of course the tributaries have bridges across them. That said I do agree that the whole premise of the article is pretty dumb, considering the Brazilians fairly easily (minus graft) built a bridge across the Rio Negro right before it becomes the Amazon. If they wanted to, they could do it after as well.
- alexhutcheson 8y agoInteresting! Brazil calls it the Solimões, but most of the rest of the world just calls it the Amazon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solim%C3%B5es_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solim%C3%B5es_River On the US version of Google Maps, the Amazon starts where the Marañón and Ucayali rivers combine in Peru: https://goo.gl/maps/ia7gCLD1k5M2 https://goo.gl/maps/ia7gCLD1k5M2
- mattmanser 8y agoAll of the ones you've linked clearly say Apurimac River.