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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 ...
The Baluarte Bridge was inaugurated by President Calderón on 5 January 2012. Officials from Guinness World Records were on hand at the inauguration ceremony to certify the bridge as the world's highest cable-stayed bridge. [2] At the time it was about 86 per cent complete. [3] It was finished in late January 2012, and went operational by 2013 ...
It was also the highest bridge in Mexico and the second highest multiple cable-stayed bridge to be built in the world. [1] [2] 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.
For example, (as of 8 February 2020) the Duge Bridge is the highest bridge in the world, but only the tenth tallest. 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 ...
The Donghai Bridge, China is the second longest cross-sea bridge in the world The Lupu Bridge, China. Donghai Bridge—Second-longest over-sea bridge; Duge Bridge—Highest bridge in the world as of late 2016; Lupu Bridge; Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge; Tongling Bridge; Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge
World's Highest Bridge Completes Connection In Guizhou The Beipanjiang Bridge suspends nearly 2,000 feet above the Beipan river, and extends 2,300 feet between China's mountains.
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.
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