Cayey_Bridge

Cayey Bridge

Cayey Bridge

Historic bridge in Guayama municipality, Puerto Rico

The Cayey Bridge, also known as Puente de Cayey, is an iron lateral lattice girder bridge in Puerto Rico that was built in 1891. It brings Puerto Rico Highway 15 over the Guamaní River. Despite its name, its actually closer to the city of Guayama and not Cayey.

Quick Facts Nearest city, Coordinates ...

It is an extremely rare example of such a bridge in the United States or its territories. Puerto Rico has the only bridges in the United States or its territories built with this technology.[2]

The bridge was fabricated by the Belgian firm Nicrisse & Decluve. The girder bridge has two independent spans.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1]

  • Cayey Bridge

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Luis Pumarada O'Neill (July 31, 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cayey Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved July 8, 2016. with four photos from 1989 and 1993


Stub icon

This article about a property in Puerto Rico on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Cayey_Bridge, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.