Mexico's cable-stayed bridge highest in the world

Mexico’s newly opened Baluarte Bridge crosses the Baluarte River in the Sierra Madre mountain range in the north of the country. The 1.12km long bridge is 403m high at its central point, making it the highest cable-stayed structure in the world, and a Guinness Book of Records entrant. It is part of a new highway connecting Mazatlan on Mexico’s Pacific Coast with Durango.
May 11, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Mexico’s newly opened Baluarte Bridge crosses the Baluarte River in the Sierra Madre mountain range in the north of the country. The 1.12km long bridge is 403m high at its central point, making it the highest cable-stayed structure in the world, and a Guinness Book of Records entrant. It is part of a new highway connecting Mazatlan on Mexico’s Pacific Coast with Durango.

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