Puente No. 6, in

Caguas Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founded ...

, Puerto Rico is a historic bridge which was built in 1856. It was listed on the

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in 2009 and is located at Puerto Rico Highway 798, Km. 1.0 in Río Cañas barrio. It has also been known as Bridge #6, as Ponton La Concepcion, and as (La) Concepcion Bridge. It spans the Cañas River. It is a brick

barrel vault A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are ...

bridge. It was built as part of the Río Piedras-Caguas highway program. With The image at right is from ''Our Islands and their People'' by Jose de Olivares, published in 1899 after the Spanish-American War.

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Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico Bridges completed in 1856 1850s establishments in Puerto Rico Brick bridges Caguas, Puerto Rico 1856 establishments in the Spanish Empire {{PuertoRico-NRHP-stub