Bonfim
Worth seeing in and around Bonfim
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Takutu River Bridge
The Takutu River Bridge is a bridge across the Takutu River, linking Lethem in Guyana to Bonfim in Brazil. It was completed in 2009 and opened on 31 July 2009.
3.4 km · Bridge between Guyana and Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bonfim
- Airports
- Atlas Brasil Cantanhede (BVB), 111 km
- Boa Vista → Bonfim111 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · R$34–45
- Manaus → Bonfim719 km · quickest by air, 9h 15m · R$610–940
- Georgetown → Bonfim426 km · quickest by road, 16h 3m · $44–60
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bonfim
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bonfim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn 2008 the bridge from the Brazilian side of the river was completed, replacing the ferry.
- Get inFrom Georgetown, overnight minibuses depart every evening around 18:00 and they arrive in Lethem the next day around noon.
- Get inMinibuses operate around the year, also in the rainy season — service with the full-size buses who could take up to 36 hours in the rainy period has been discontinued.
- Get inIf you're coming from the south, there's at least a daily bus from the state capital Boa Vista to Bonfim, tickets are R$ 13 for the bus or R$ 35 for a minibus.
- Go nextGeorgetown is accessible by minibus, as described in Get in, or you can take the plane.
From Wikivoyage: Lethem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Bonfim
- St. Ignatiusamerindian village in Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana4 km