The Magapit Bridge is suspension bridge spanning that connects the east and west sides of the

Cagayan River The Cagayan River, also known as the Río Grande de Cagayán, is the longest river and the largest river by discharge volume of water in the Philippines. It has a total length of approximately and a drainage basin covering . It is located in t ...

Lal-lo Lal-lo, officially the Municipality of Lal-Lo ( ibg, Ili nat Lal-lo; ilo, Ili ti Lal-lo; tl, Bayan ng Lal-lo), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 48,733 peop ...

Cagayan Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan ( ilo, Probinsia ti Cagayan; ibg, Provinsiya na Cagayan; itv, Provinsiya ya Cagayan; fil, Lalawigan ng Cagayan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region, covering ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. Opened in 1978, it carries

Maharlika Highway The Pan-Philippine Highway, also known as the Maharlika Highway ( tl, Daang Maharlika; ceb, Dalang Halangdon), is a network of roads, expressways, bridges, and ferry services that connect the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao in t ...

, linking Barangays Bangag and Magapit in Lal-lo. The bridge was also named by the locals as the "''

Golden Gate The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by t ...

of Cagayan''". This bridge is one of the only two bridges in the province that runs across the mighty waterway of the Cagayan River. The late Engr. Angel G. Villanueva was the project engineer of Magapit suspension bridge under IWCDC (owned by the Dys) and Japanese consultants.

Rehabilitation

The bridge undergone rehabilitation that started on May 16, 2012 and ended November 20, 2012. Traffic in that area were serviced by ferry boats in lieu of the rehabilitation. The rehabilitation project had an estimated cost of .DPWH: Magapit Bridge closed starting May 16 for repair {{cite web , url=http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=461336016291 , title=PIA | Philippine Information Agency | DPWH: Magapit Bridge closed starting May 16 for repair , website=Philippine Information Agency , access-date=2012-05-28 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120805112547/http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=461336016291 , archivedate=2012-08-05

References

Bridges in the Philippines Buildings and structures in Cagayan