Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge
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The Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge is a cable-stayed road and railway bridge in Argentina, that crosses the Paraná River between the cities of Zárate, province of Buenos Aires, and Brazo Largo, province of Entre Ríos.
The bridge has a suspended length of 550 metres (1,804 ft), with a main span of 330 metres (1,802 ft). Its pylons are 110 metres (360 ft) high, and its deck depth is 2.6 metres (8.5 ft). It was built between 1972 and 1978, and rehabilitated in 1998. It was the first long span railway cable-stayed bridge in the world.
Zárate-Brazo Largo links the north of Buenos Aires with the southern part of the Argentine Mesopotamia, and also, by extension, Argentina with Uruguay and Brazil. The road link has four lanes. The main span is 50 metres (164 ft) over the water level of the Paraná, which allows the pass of very large ships. It is one of only two such bridges over the Paraná, the other being the more recent Rosario-Victoria Bridge (2003).
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- Structurae - International Database and Gallery of Structures.
- (Spanish) ZarateGlobal.com.ar - Zárate city portal.
- Bridge over the Rio Paranà a Las Palmas.
- (Spanish) Crossing the Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridge.
