ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT: The Baluarte Bridge has a total length of 1,120 m, a main span of 520 m, and a height from the bottom of the Baluate River of 402.57 m, for which it was awarded with the Guinness World Records Certificate to the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world. The Project required site’s topographic-hydraulic, geological, geophysical, geotechnical, seismic risk and wind incidence studies, in order to develop the structural and constructive design of the bridge.