The Ricobayo Arch Bridge (Spanish: ''Puente de San Esteban'' or ''Arco de Ricobayo'') is a supported deck arch bridge that carries the National 122 Road over the

Esla River The Esla is a river in the provinces of León and Zamora in the northwest of Spain. It is a tributary of the Duero River that starts in the Cantabrian Mountains and is long. Its direction of flow is from north to south. It is the largest tribu ...

Ricobayo Ricobayo is a locality in the province of Zamora, Spain. Formerly a municipality in its own right, it is part of Muelas del Pan. Bridge Long important as a crossing-point on the River Esla, Ricobayo's original bridge is now under water, havin ...

in the province of

Zamora, Spain Zamora () is a city and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital of the province of Zamora. The city straddles the Duero river. With its 24 characteristic Romanesque style churches of the ...

. The original bridge at Ricobayo was drowned after the river was dammed impounding the Ricobayo reservoir. The arch bridge rises 23 m (75.5 ft) above the maximum water level of the reservoir. Its arch is a composite hollow box section of steel and concrete. The total length of the bridge is 219 m (718.5 ft) with an arch spanning 168 m (551 ft).

Other bridges nearby

* ''Requejo viaduct'' has a steel arch stretching 120 m (394 ft) across the

Duero River The Douro (, , ; es, Duero ; la, Durius) is the highest-flow river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province, central Spain, meanders south briefly then flows generally west through the north-west part of ...

at Pino del Oro. It was designed by engineer Jose Eugenio Ribera *''Martin Gil Viaduct'', measuring 192 m (630 ft), a world record in its day. The team included Eduardo Torroja. Construction of the ''Martín Gil Viaduct'' was disrupted by the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

, resulting in sources giving differing dates for completion: **Zamora 1942 **1936 ''Rio Esla-Brücke'' Zamora, 192 m.

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* {{refend * Perez-Fadon, Santiago. Proyecto y construccion del Arco de Ricobayo, in "Hormigón y acero", 2nd Quarter 1999, n. 212. Arch bridges Concrete bridges Road bridges in Spain