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The Baluarte Bridge held the record for the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world when it was inaugurated in 2012 with a maximum drop from the surface of the deck to the bottom of the Baluarte River of 403 metres (1,322 ft), according to the Guinness World Records, [18] [19] however, some diagrams of the bridge show a height of 390 metres (1,280 ft) between the axis of the central span and ...
Note: There is no standard way to measure the total length of a bridge. Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge.
The Mezcala Bridge was built as part of the 1989–1994 highway restructuring program in Mexico, which reduced the distance of Highway 95 between Cuernavaca and Acapulco by 49 km. The bridge suffered a fire in one of its cable systems in March 2007 when there was an accident on the main deck.
Length: 1,213 km [1] [2] [3] (754 mi) Existed: July 1, 1936–present: Major junctions; South end: Fed. 95 in Mexico City: Fed. 130 in Pachuca Fed. 120 in Ciudad Valles Fed. 101 in Ciudad Victoria Fed. 40 in Monterrey: North end: I-35 BL at the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico Border in Nuevo Laredo: Location ...
The Puente Ingeniero Ernesto Uriegas, best known as the Puente de Fierro (English: Iron Bridge), is a twin-span bridge found along Vía Morelos Avenue, in San Cristóbal, Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico. The bridge was built to cross the Gran Canal del Desagüe (Grand Sewage Canal) that surrounds Mexico City. The origins of the ...
Bridge disasters in Mexico (2 P) C. Cable-stayed bridges in Mexico (5 P) I. ... Pages in category "Bridges in Mexico" The following 12 pages are in this category, out ...
The bridge has a total length of 1,124 m (3,688 ft), [2] with a central cable-stayed span of 520 m (1,710 ft). [3] With the road deck at 403 m (1,322 ft) [ 2 ] above the valley below, the Baluarte Bridge is the third-highest cable-stayed bridge in the world , the eighth-highest bridge overall, and the highest bridge in the Americas.
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]