Puente Laureano Gomez
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| Official name | Puente Laureano Gomez |
| use | Road bridge |
| Crossing of | Río Magdalena |
| place | Barranquilla and Sitionuevo , Colombia |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge , prestressed concrete bridge |
| overall length | 1502 m |
| width | 12.50 m |
| Longest span | 140 |
| Clear height | 16 m |
| start of building | 1970 |
| completion | 1974 |
| opening | April 6, 1974 |
| construction time | 4 years |
| planner | Riccardo Morandi |
| closure | 20th December 2019 |
El Puente Laureno Gómez was a bridge over the Río Magdalena in Barranquilla and Sitionuevo , Colombia , that connected the city to the east of the country between 1974 and December 2019.
It was replaced by the new Puente Pumarejo on December 20, 2019 .
description
The official name of the bridge has always been Puente Laureano Gómez , but it was generally named after Alberto Pumarejo, a regional politician who at the time was particularly committed to the construction of the bridge and who is now really the namesake of the new bridge.
It was the only bridge over the Río Magdalena and the largest bridge in Colombia until the Antonio Carnargo Escobar Bridge was opened in 1997 in Plato , about 130 km further south . Today the new Pumarejo Bridge is the largest in the country.
The Puente Laureano Gómez is a 1502 m long and 12.50 m wide road bridge with two lanes and two wide sidewalks. The structure is divided into a 329 m long ramp bridge for the access from Barranquilla, a 280 m long and 16 m high cable-stayed bridge over the shipping channel and an 893 m long yoke bridge, which leads in a bend over an island in the river to the other bank. Including the long access roads, the structure is 3383 m long.
The bridge was designed by Riccardo Morandi and built by an Italian-Colombian group between 1970 and 1974. The entire bridge is built on piles that reach a depth of up to 30 m below the water level.
The actual cable-stayed bridge has a span of 140 m in the main opening and 70 m in each of the secondary openings. Its two pylons consist of two reinforced concrete columns each with a diameter of 5 m, on which a massive crossbar is arranged. This crossbar supports both the prestressed concrete hollow box girder with the bridge slab and the two laterally arranged, slightly inwardly inclined pylon pillars. These reinforced concrete pillars have a rectangular cross-section and are connected at the top by a crossbar. Stay cables, which are also embedded in rectangular concrete rods, lead from the pylon tops to their anchorages next to the bridge plate.
The ramp bridge consists of 7 and the yoke bridge on the other side of 19 fields. The fields are formed by 26 yokes made of two 2.50 m thick concrete columns and a crossbeam on which 47 m long prefabricated prestressed concrete girders were placed.
After the inauguration of the new building, the bridge was closed to traffic. It is discussed whether it will be demolished or remain as a tourist attraction, but this is not realistic since one of the pylons would be in the middle of the fairway of the new bridge.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d Carlos Bell Lemus: El Puente Pumarejo sobre el río Magdalena on banrepcultural.org, the website of the Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved December 21, 2019 (Spanish)
- ^ Presidente Samper entrega el puente Plato-Zambrano . Article on el Tiempo.com of December 30, 1997
- ↑ Puente Alfonso López Pumarejo (Puente Pumarejo) on archive.org
- ↑ Diseñador del puente que se Cayo de Italia también el diseño Puente Pumarejo El Universal Barranquilla, August 16, 2018