Rosario-Victoria Bridge (in Spanish, ''Puente Rosario-Victoria'') is the informal name of the physical connection between the

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cities of

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

(province of Santa Fe) and Victoria (province of Entre Ríos). This roadlink is composed of several

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s and earth-filled sections. It crosses the main course of the

Paraná River The Paraná River ( es, Río Paraná, links=no , pt, Rio Paraná, gn, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some ."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Br ...

and touches down on several islands of the Paraná Delta in the way. Works on the project began in 1998, but they were repeatedly interrupted due to lack of continued funding from the national and the provincial state, especially in the worst part of the Argentine economic crisis of 2001. Public transit access to the bridge was opened on May 22, 2003. The link between the two cities spans a total of 59.4 kilometers (37 mi). The total length of the various bridges and their viaducts is 12.2 km (7.5 mi). The main bridge is 4,098 meters (13,440 ft) long, with central cable-stayed span of 350 meters (1,148 ft). Among the materials used were about 250,000 cubic meters (326,987 yd³) of

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, 63,000 tons of ADN-420 type steel, and 17,618 tons of

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. The access to the main bridge on the western side is in the northern border of Rosario, on the limit with the city of

Granadero Baigorria Granadero Baigorria is a city in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located directly north of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River, and forming part of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area. Its population is about ...

. The official name of the main bridge (cable-stayed) is ''Nuestra Señora del Rosario'' (''Our Lady of Rosario''). The project was executed by a private company (''Puentes del Litoral S. A.''), which was granted subsidies from the national state and the provincial states of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, totalling about $385 million . The company received the operation and maintenance concession of the bridge for 25 years. Until the opening of this bridge, the only road link between the two provinces, and between two commercially very important regions of Argentina, was the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel which joins the cities of Santa Fe and Paraná, about 120 kilometers (75 mi) north from Rosario. The southern Paraná is crossed by another cable-stayed bridge, the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge, joining Entre Ríos and

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References

External links

Rosario's tourism agency page on the bridge

RosarioTuristica.com.ar
Puente-Rosario Victoria
A monograph on the bridge
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Pictures of the bridge
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Cable-stayed bridges in Argentina Transport in Rosario, Santa Fe Buildings and structures in Entre Ríos Province Buildings and structures in Santa Fe Province Bridges completed in 2003 Bridges over the Paraná River

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