Baluarte Bridge

Baluarte Bridge is a cable-stayed highway bridge on Mexico 40D spanning a deep Sierra Madre Occidental gorge between Concordia, Sinaloa, and Pueblo Nuevo, Durango. Built for the Durango–Mazatlán highway, it created a more direct northern Mexico route between the Atlantic and Pacific sides and replaced the hazardous Devil’s Backbone mountain road from the 1940s. Construction began on 21 February 2008, it was inaugurated on 5 January 2012, and opened to traffic in late 2013. At 1,124 metres long, with a 520-metre central span and a deck 403 metres above the valley, it became the highest bridge in the Americas and cut travel time between Durango and Mazatlán from about six hours to roughly two and a half.

Sinaloa · Mexico