Pumarejo bridge

10.950677 - 74.757505Koordinaten: 10 ° 57 ' 2.4 " N, 74 ° 45' 27 " W

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Río Magdalena

The Puente Pumarejo is a bridge over the Río Magdalena in Barranquilla, Colombia, connecting the town to the east of the country since 1974.

Its official name is Laureano Gómez Puente, but it is generally named after Alberto Pumarejo, a local politician who stood up particularly for the construction of the bridge.

She was the only bridge over the Río Magdalena and the largest bridge of Colombia until 1997, the bridge Carnargo Antonio Escobar in around 130 km to the south Plato was opened.

The Puente Pumarejo is a 1502 m long and 12.50 m wide road bridge with two traffic lanes and two wide sidewalks. The building is divided into a 329 m long ramp bridge for the access of Barranquilla, a 280 m long and 16 m high suspension bridge over the navigation channel and a 893 m long Trestle, which leads into a bend on an island in the river to the other shore. Including the long access roads, the building is 3383 m long.

The bridge was designed by Riccardo Morandi and built in the years 1970 to 1974 by a group of Italian companies. The entire bridge is founded on piles, ranging up to 30 m depth below the water level.

The actual cable-stayed bridge has in the main opening has a span of 140 m and in the side spans of 70 m. Her two pylons are made of two steel- concrete columns with 5 m diameter, where a massive cross bar is located. This cross bar carries both the prestressed concrete box girder to the bridge plate and the two arranged laterally, slightly inwardly inclined pylon piers. These pillars of reinforced concrete have a rectangular cross section and are connected at the top by a crossbar with each other. From the pylon tips embedded in likewise rectangular concrete beams stay cables lead to their moorings next to the bridge plate.

The ramp 7 and the bridge consists of Trestle on the other side of 19 fields. The fields are formed by 26 Jochen of two 2.50 m thick concrete pillars and a crossbar on the 47 m long prefabricated prestressed concrete beams were discontinued.