34.103261°N 59.002664°W
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The Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridges are two cable-stayed road and railway bridges

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, crossing the Paraná River

Paraná River

The Paraná River is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina for some . It is second in length only to the Amazon River among South American rivers. The name Paraná is an abbreviation of the phrase "para rehe onáva", which comes from the Tupi language...

 (Paraná Guazú and Paraná de las Palmas) between the cities of Zárate

Zárate, Buenos Aires

Zárate is a city in the northeast of the . It lies on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Buenos Aires. Its population as per the is 101,271 inhabitants. It is the head town and the only city in the partido of the same name....

, Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

, and Brazo Largo, Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....

.

The bridges have a suspended length of 550 m (1,804 ft), with a main span of 330 m (1,083 ft). Its pylons are 110 m (361 ft) high, and its deck depth is 2.6 m (8.5 ft). They were built between 1972 and 1977 on a design by Italian engineer Fabrizio de Miranda

Fabrizio de Miranda

Fabrizio de Miranda is an Italian bridges and structural engineer, and university professor.-Career:He graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1950 from the University of Naples. Since 1955 he introduced in Italy the steel-concrete composite structures, mainly in the field of bridges...

, and refurbished in 1998.

Zárate-Brazo Largo links the north of Buenos Aires with the southern part of the Argentine Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia, Argentina

La Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. The region called Litoral consists of the Mesopotamia and the provinces of Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe...

, and also, by extension, Argentina with Uruguay

Uruguay

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 and Brazil

Brazil

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. The road link has four lanes. The main span is 50 m (164 ft) over the water level of the Paraná, which allows the passage of very large ships. It is one of only two such bridges over the Paraná, the other being the more recent Rosario-Victoria Bridge

Rosario-Victoria Bridge

Rosario-Victoria Bridge is the informal name of the physical connection between the Argentine cities of Rosario and Victoria ....

(2003).