Pueblo Nuevo Bridge
Pueblo Nuevo Bridge
Puente Pueblo Nuevo
Pueblo Nuevo, Durango, Mexico
384 feet high / 117 meters high
459 foot span / 140 meter span
2012
The huge Pueblo Nuevo will be one of many high concrete beam bridges on the Durango-Mazatlán highway now under construction in Durango and Sinaloa states. By cutting a safer, more direct route through the mountains, the highway department of Mexico hopes to improve trade and increase tourism between the city of Durango and the coastal city of Mazatlán. To achieve this connection, the Mexican engineers were forced to design an autopista with no less than 63 tunnels - nearly 10 times more than have ever been built on any road in North America. For big bridge fans, the highway will be no less amazing with a parade of towering concrete beam bridges. Including Baluarte, there will be 8 bridges that exceed 300 feet (90 mtrs) in height including Santa Lucia, Neverías, La Pinta, Chico, Botijas, Pueblo Nuevo and El Carrizo. Only China’s West Hurongxi and Italy’s A3 highways have a greater collection of high bridges.
