The Baluarte River, (Rio del Baluarte) is a river of

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

in the states of Durango and Sinaloa, traversing 142 km, part of which forms the border between these two states. The river drains to the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...

with a basin of ."Marismas Nacionales Conservation & Carbon Sequestration Study" p36
/ref> The portion of the river, near Concordia in Sinaloa, is spanned by the Durango–Mazatlán highway via the

Baluarte Bridge The Baluarte Bridge ( es, Puente Baluarte), officially the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge ( es, Puente Baluarte Bicentenario), is a cable-stayed bridge in Mexico. It is located between the municipalities of Concordia in Sinaloa and Pueblo Nuevo i ...

- the highest

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...

in the world.

References

*Atlas of Mexico, 1975 (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_mexico/river_basins.jpg). * * Rivers of Sinaloa Rivers of Mexico {{Mexico-river-stub

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