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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 ...
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. [4] Construction of the bridge began in 2008, it was inaugurated in January 2012 and opened to traffic in late 2013. [5]
The Mezcala Bridge (also known as the Mezcala-Solidaridad Bridge), is a cable-stayed bridge located in the state of Guerrero on Highway 95D in Mexico.It spans the Balsas River (known locally as the Mezcala River) close to the western Pacific coast of the country.
The Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan was a suspension bridge believed to have been built by the Maya across the Usumacinta River, Chiapas, Mexico. If so, it would have been the longest bridge discovered in the ancient world, [ 1 ] dating from its construction by the Maya civilization in the late 7th century at Yaxchilan .
This bridge spans a deep river gorge. The bridge's two towers, built on the rims of the gorge, are 269 m (883 ft) tall, but due to the depth of the river gorge between the towers, the deck height of the Duge Bridge is 565 m (1,854 ft). The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that is both tall (in structural height) and high (in deck height ...
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. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.
Map showing major rivers in Mexico. Among the longest rivers of Mexico are 26 streams of at least 250 km (160 mi). In the case of rivers such as the Colorado, the length listed in the table below is solely that of the main stem. [1] In the case of the Grijalva and Usumacinta, it is the combined lengths of two river systems that share a delta. [2]
Royal Gorge Bridge: Arkansas River: 1929: Colorado: 900 ft (274.3 m) Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge: Colorado River: 2010: Arizona / Nevada: 876 ft (267.0 m) New River Gorge Bridge: New River: 1977: West Virginia: 730 ft (222.5 m) Foresthill Bridge: American River: 1973: California: 700 ft (213.4 m) Glen Canyon Dam Bridge ...