Puente Libertador General San Martín

Coordinates: 33 ° 5 ′ 58 ″  S , 58 ° 14 ′ 56 ″  W

Puente Libertador General San Martín
use	Road bridge
construction	Girder bridge, box girder, haunched
width	12 m
Clear height	45 m
opening	September 16, 1976
construction time	1972-1976
location

The Puente Libertador General San Martín is an international toll road bridge in South America.

It runs over the Río Uruguay and connects the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú via Puerto Unzué with the Uruguayan city of Fray Bentos . From Gualeguaychú the Ruta Nacional 136 leads to the bridge, on the Uruguayan side a junction from the Ruta 2 southeast of Fray Bentos.

Data

The bridge is 45 meters high and 5366 meters long including the access roads (3408 meters without the access roads), of which 4220 m are on the Argentine side and 1146 m on Uruguayan territory. The main bridge has three openings with spans of 145 meters at the side panels and 220 meters at the central box and was used as prestressed concrete beams with a haunched hollow box cross-section in the cantilever prepared.

history

Planning for the bridge construction project began on November 23, 1960, when the binational Commission Comisión Técnica Mixta del Puente entre la Argentina y el Uruguay (COMPAU) was founded. This ultimately determined the selection of the current location for the bridge construction. This was fixed on May 30, 1967 within the framework of an agreement between the two states Argentina and Uruguay , which was first signed in Buenos Aires and finally ratified in Montevideo on October 17, 1967. In 1972 construction began by the Consorcio Puente Internacional (COPUI) after the relevant contract had been signed on August 23, 1972. The construction was partially financed by loans from the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). The cost was initially estimated at $ 21.7 million and later revised upwards. Finally, on September 16, 1976, the building was inaugurated.

The name of the bridge can be traced back to the independence fighter José de San Martín .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ other sources name 36 meters, cf. structurae.de
2. ^ Puente Libertador General San Martín (Spanish), accessed June 21, 2013
3. ↑ Puente General San Martín (Spanish), accessed June 21, 2013
4. ^ Puente Libertador General San Martín (Spanish), accessed June 21, 2013
5. ↑ Data on the bridge on structura.de
6. ↑ Puente General San Martín (Spanish), accessed June 21, 2013
7. ^ Puente Libertador General San Martín (Spanish), accessed June 21, 2013