Puente Internacional Agustín P. Justo - Getúlio Vargas

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The bridge seen from the Argentine bank, in the background the Brazilian city of Uruguaiana on the left.

The Puente Internacional Paso de los Libres-Uruguaiana , officially Spanish Puente Internacional Agustín P. Justo-Getúlio Vargas , Portuguese Ponte Internacional Getúlio Vargas-Agustín Pedro , also Ponte Internacional Uruguaiana-Paso de los Libres , is a 1419 meter long combined railway and Road bridge that connects the cities of Paso de los Libres in the Argentine province of Corrientes with Uruguaiana in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul .

Between 1934 and 1935, the governments of Argentina and Brazil signed treaties to build a bridge over the Uruguay River. A mixed Argentine-Brazilian commission carried out feasibility studies on the border lines of Alvear / Itaquí, Santo Tomé / São Borja and Paso de los Libres / Uruguaiana, the latter being selected for construction. After years of study and planning, construction work finally began in 1942.

The construction was financed by both sides of the river at the same time and by both countries separately. In the middle point of the bridge is the international border crossing. In Argentina, the client Parodi & Figini was the winner of the competition and in Brazil the work was carried out by Matheus Martins Noronha & Cia. The bridge was completed on October 12, 1945, but was not officially inaugurated until May 21, 1947 as Puente Internacional Agustín P. Justo - Getúlio Vargas . The inauguration of the bridge took place in the presence of the Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón and the Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra .

Until 1997, the bridge was the only one that crossed the Uruguay at the height of the Brazilian-Argentine border - and thus carried up to 80 percent of the truck traffic between the two countries. This only changed with the construction of the Puente de la Integración / Ponte da Integração between Santo Tomé on the Argentine side and São Borja on the Brazilian side.

In October 2018, the government of Argentina announced that it wanted to completely renovate its 730 meter long section of the bridge.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ El Gobierno Nacional rehabilitará el Puente Internacional Paso de los Libres. In: gob.ar. Argentina.gob.ar, October 25, 2018, accessed February 4, 2019 (Spanish).

Coordinates: 29 ° 44 ′ 34.6 "  S , 57 ° 5 ′ 37.3"  W.