List of bridges in Chile

This is a list of bridges and viaducts in Chile, including those for pedestrians and vehicular traffic.

Historical and architectural interest bridges

	Name	Distinction	Length	Type	Carries Crosses	Opened	Location	Region	Ref.
1	Cal y Canto Bridge demolished in 1888	Historic Monument (remains of the bridge)	202 m (663 ft)	Masonry 9 semi-circular arches	Road bridge Mapocho River	1782	Santiago 33°25′57.7″S 70°39′05.8″W / 33.432694°S 70.651611°W / -33.432694; -70.651611 (Cal y Canto Bridge)	Santiago Metropolitan Region	^[1] ^[2]
2	Conchi viaduct	Second highest railway viaduct in the world when inaugurated Height : 102 m (335 ft) Historic Monument	244 m (801 ft)	Trestle bridge Steel	Former Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia Loa River	1888	Calama 22°01′55.5″S 68°37′15.5″W / 22.032083°S 68.620972°W / -22.032083; -68.620972 (Conchi viaduct)	Antofagasta Region	^{[S 1]} ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
3	Biobío Railway Bridge (Concepción)		1,886 m (6,188 ft)	Truss Steel	Concepción-Curanilahue railway Biobío River	1889	Concepción–San Pedro de la Paz 36°49′40.0″S 73°04′40.5″W / 36.827778°S 73.077917°W / -36.827778; -73.077917	Biobío Region	^[6]
4	Malleco Viaduct	Height : 96 m (315 ft) Historic Monument	347 m (1,138 ft)	Truss Steel 4x69	Longitudinal Sur Malleco River	1890	Collipulli 37°57′46.8″S 72°26′18.6″W / 37.963000°S 72.438500°W / -37.963000; -72.438500 (Malleco Viaduct)	Araucanía Region	^{[S 2]} ^[7] ^[8]
5	Maipo Bridge			Truss Steel	Railway bridge Maipo River		San Bernardo–Buin 33°41′24.3″S 70°43′21.6″W / 33.690083°S 70.722667°W / -33.690083; -70.722667 (Maipo Bridge)	Santiago Metropolitan Region
6	Pedro de Valdivia Bridge	Withstood the 1960 Valdivia earthquake (9.5 magnitude, the strongest ever recorded)	239 m (784 ft)	Box girder Prestressed concrete 49+69+49	Valdivia River	1954	Valdivia 39°48′41.4″S 73°14′56.5″W / 39.811500°S 73.249028°W / -39.811500; -73.249028 (Pedro de Valdivia Bridge)	Los Ríos Region	^[9] ^[10] ^[11]

Major road and railway bridges

This table presents the structures with spans greater than 100 metres (330 ft) (non-exhaustive list).

	Name	Span	Length	Type	Carries Crosses	Opened	Location	Region	Ref.
1	Chacao Channel bridge under construction	1,155 m (3,789 ft)	2,634 m (8,642 ft)	Suspension Steel box girder deck, 3 concrete pylons 284+1155+1055+43	Chile Route 5 Chacao Channel	2025	Chacao (Chiloé Island)–Pargua 41°47′43.5″S 73°31′22.4″W / 41.795417°S 73.522889°W / -41.795417; -73.522889 (Chacao Channel bridge)	Los Lagos Region	^{[S 3]} ^[12] ^[13] ^[14]
2	Presidente Ibáñez Bridge	210 m (690 ft)	210 m (690 ft)	Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons	Chile Route 40 Aysén River	1966	Puerto Aysén 45°24′16.5″S 72°41′04.4″W / 45.404583°S 72.684556°W / -45.404583; -72.684556 (Presidente Ibáñez Bridge)	Aysén Region	^{[Note 1]} ^{[S 4]} ^[15] ^[16]
3	Yelcho Bridge	150 m (490 ft)	250 m (820 ft)	Cable-stayed Concrete girder deck, concrete pylons 50+150+50	Chile Route 7 (Carretera Austral) Yelcho River Yelcho Lake	1989	Chaitén 43°10′31.5″S 72°26′21.0″W / 43.175417°S 72.439167°W / -43.175417; -72.439167 (Yelcho Bridge)	Los Lagos Region	^{[S 5]} ^[17]
4	Treng Treng Kay Kay Bridge	140 m (460 ft)	240 m (790 ft)	Cable-stayed Concrete box girder deck, 1 inclined concrete pylons 140+27+23	Road bridge Cautín River	2021	Temuco–Padre Las Casas 38°44′59.2″S 72°35′22.3″W / 38.749778°S 72.589528°W / -38.749778; -72.589528 (Treng Treng Kay Kay Bridge)	Araucanía Region	^{[S 6]} ^[18]
5	President Eduardo Frei Montalva Bridge	135 m (443 ft)	155 m (509 ft)	Suspension Steel truss deck, concrete pylons	Chile Route S-40 Imperial River	1949	Carahue 38°43′07.0″S 73°10′30.9″W / 38.718611°S 73.175250°W / -38.718611; -73.175250	Araucanía Region	^[19]
6	Augusto Grosse Bridge			Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons	Chile Route 7 (Carretera Austral) Mayer River		Villa O'Higgins 48°28′57.7″S 72°35′18.8″W / 48.482694°S 72.588556°W / -48.482694; -72.588556 (Augusto Grosse Bridge)	Aysén Region
7	General Carrera Lake Bridge			Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons	Chile Route 7 (Carretera Austral) General Carrera Lake	1989	Puerto Guadal 46°50′42.7″S 72°48′10.0″W / 46.845194°S 72.802778°W / -46.845194; -72.802778 (General Carrera Lake Bridge)	Aysén Region
8	Sergio Sepúlveda Bridge			Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons	Chile Route 7 (Carretera Austral) Rosselot river		La Junta 43°57′41.3″S 72°23′48.2″W / 43.961472°S 72.396722°W / -43.961472; -72.396722 (Sergio Sepúlveda Bridge)	Aysén Region

Notes and references

Notes

↑ Historic Monument.^[15]

Nicolas Janberg. "International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering". Structurae.com.

Others references

↑ Rosales, Justo Abel (1888). El Puente Cal y Canto [The Cal y Canto Bridge] (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago: Historia y Tradiciones. pp. 19, 20. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
↑ "Todos los restos del puente de Cal y Canto de Santiago" [All the remains of the Cal y Canto de Santiago bridge]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ "Viaducto de Conchi sobre el río Loa" [Conchi Viaduct over the Loa River]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ Galeno-Ibaceta, Claudio; Arellano Escudero, Nelson (October 2017). "El viaducto de Conchi: una obra de la Revolución Industrial en el desierto de Atacama, 1887-1888" [The Conchi viaduct: a work of the Industrial Revolution in the Atacama desert, 1887-1888]. Actas del Décimo Congreso Nacional y Segundo Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción (in Spanish). Instituto Juan de Herrera. pp. 625–633.
↑ "Loa Viaduct". Highestbridges.com. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ "Plan regulador comunal estudio de patrimonio comunal" [Communal regulatory plan study of communal heritage] (PDF). Sanpedrodelapaz.cl - Municipalidad de San Pedro de la Paz (in Spanish). Manuel Duran Iligaray Arquitecto Consultor. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2010.
↑ "Viaducto del Malleco" [Malleco Viaduct]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ Marin Vicuna, 1901, p.102-103
↑ González, 2013, p.39
↑ "M 9.5 - 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake)". Earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ Steinbrugge, Karl V.; Clough, Ray W. Chilean Earthquakes of May, 1960: A Brief Trip Report (PDF). p. 634. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
↑ Pizarro, Diego; Hube, Matias; Valenzuela, Matias (September 2015). "Dynamic Characteristics of a Longitudinally Asymmetrical Multi-Span Suspension Bridge: The Chacao Bridge". IABSE Conference – Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges. Geneva, Switzerland – via Researchgate.net.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ "Definitive design approved for Chacao Bridge". Bridgeweb.com - Bridge Design & Engineering. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ "Proyecto Puente Chacao Chiloé" [Chacao Bridge Project - Chiloé]. Puentechacao.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.
1 2 "Puente Presidente Ibáñez" [Ibáñez President Bridge]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ "Puente Presidente Ibáñez es distinguido como ícono bicentenario" [Presidente Ibáñez Bridge is distinguished as a bicentennial icon]. Gobernacionaysen.gov.cl - Gobernación Provincia de Aysén (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
↑ "DYWIDAG Multistrand Stay Cable Systems" (PDF). Addbeton.com. p. 20. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
↑ Perales Aravena, Rodrigo (November 2012). Tercer Puente "Treng Treng y Kay Kay" Temuco – Padre Las Casas, Región de la Araucanía [Third Bridge "Treng Treng and Kay Kay" Temuco – Padre Las Casas, Araucanía Region] (in Spanish). Coquimbo: V Congreso Asociación de Ingenieros Civiles Estructurales. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
↑ Manual de Consulta Turístico e Histórico de la Comuna de Carahue [Tourist and Historical Consultation Manual of the Commune of Carahue] (in Spanish). Fondo Regional de Cultura - Gobierno Regional de la Araucanía - Municipalidad de Carahue. 2008. p. 153.

External links

"Puentes y Túneles" [Bridges and Tunnels]. Amigosdeltren.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 8, 2012.
"Diferentes puentes de Chile" [Different bridges in Chile]. Pad.rbb.usm.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original (ppt) on May 23, 2012.
"Brücken in der Chile" [Bridges in Chile]. Brueckenweb.de (in German).
Denenberg, David. "Suspension Bridges of Chile". bridgemeister.com.
Sakowski, Eric. "Category: Bridges in Chile". Highestbridges.com.

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[19] Historic Monument.^[15]

[3] "Loa Viaduct".

[8] "Malleco Viaduct".

[14] "Chacao Channel Bridge".

[20] "Presidente Ibañez Bridge".

[22] "Yelcho Bridge".

[24] "Puente Treng Treng y Kay Kay".

[1] Rosales, Justo Abel (1888). El Puente Cal y Canto [The Cal y Canto Bridge] (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago: Historia y Tradiciones. pp. 19, 20. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[2] "Todos los restos del puente de Cal y Canto de Santiago" [All the remains of the Cal y Canto de Santiago bridge]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[4] "Viaducto de Conchi sobre el río Loa" [Conchi Viaduct over the Loa River]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[5] Galeno-Ibaceta, Claudio; Arellano Escudero, Nelson (October 2017). "El viaducto de Conchi: una obra de la Revolución Industrial en el desierto de Atacama, 1887-1888" [The Conchi viaduct: a work of the Industrial Revolution in the Atacama desert, 1887-1888]. Actas del Décimo Congreso Nacional y Segundo Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción (in Spanish). Instituto Juan de Herrera. pp. 625–633.

[6] "Loa Viaduct". Highestbridges.com. Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[7] "Plan regulador comunal estudio de patrimonio comunal" [Communal regulatory plan study of communal heritage] (PDF). Sanpedrodelapaz.cl - Municipalidad de San Pedro de la Paz (in Spanish). Manuel Duran Iligaray Arquitecto Consultor. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2010.

[9] "Viaducto del Malleco" [Malleco Viaduct]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[10] Marin Vicuna, 1901, p.102-103

[11] González, 2013, p.39

[12] "M 9.5 - 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake)". Earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[13] Steinbrugge, Karl V.; Clough, Ray W. Chilean Earthquakes of May, 1960: A Brief Trip Report (PDF). p. 634. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[15] Pizarro, Diego; Hube, Matias; Valenzuela, Matias (September 2015). "Dynamic Characteristics of a Longitudinally Asymmetrical Multi-Span Suspension Bridge: The Chacao Bridge". IABSE Conference – Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges. Geneva, Switzerland – via Researchgate.net.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[16] "Definitive design approved for Chacao Bridge". Bridgeweb.com - Bridge Design & Engineering. Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[17] "Proyecto Puente Chacao Chiloé" [Chacao Bridge Project - Chiloé]. Puentechacao.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[Puente_Presidente_Ibáñez-18] 1 2 "Puente Presidente Ibáñez" [Ibáñez President Bridge]. Monumentos.gob.cl - Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[21] "Puente Presidente Ibáñez es distinguido como ícono bicentenario" [Presidente Ibáñez Bridge is distinguished as a bicentennial icon]. Gobernacionaysen.gov.cl - Gobernación Provincia de Aysén (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.

[23] "DYWIDAG Multistrand Stay Cable Systems" (PDF). Addbeton.com. p. 20. Retrieved December 17, 2022.

[25] Perales Aravena, Rodrigo (November 2012). Tercer Puente "Treng Treng y Kay Kay" Temuco – Padre Las Casas, Región de la Araucanía [Third Bridge "Treng Treng and Kay Kay" Temuco – Padre Las Casas, Araucanía Region] (in Spanish). Coquimbo: V Congreso Asociación de Ingenieros Civiles Estructurales. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[26] Manual de Consulta Turístico e Histórico de la Comuna de Carahue [Tourist and Historical Consultation Manual of the Commune of Carahue] (in Spanish). Fondo Regional de Cultura - Gobierno Regional de la Araucanía - Municipalidad de Carahue. 2008. p. 153.

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