The Ayrton Senna bridge is a bridge in over the Rio Paraná in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It was inaugurated on 24 January 1998 and cost R$32 million.''Página do Departamento de Estradas e Rodagens do Paraná''
It carries the

BR-163 BR-163 is a highway in Brazil, going from Tenente Portela, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to Santarém, Pará, on 3579 kilometers (the stretch between Santarem and Brazil-Suriname border is only a project, the highway would have a total si ...

trunk road from Guaíra in Paraná to Mundo Novo in Mato Grosso do Sul.
The bridge is named after Brazilian racing driver,

Ayrton Senna da Silva Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in , , and . Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and wo ...

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