The official name of the Baluarte Bridge is: Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge located in Mexico, connecting Concordia in Sinaloa and Nuevo Pueblo in Durango. The bridge crosses the Mexican Federal Highway 40.

The construction of the Baluarte Bridge started in 2008, and the completion ceremony was held in January 2012. It took 4 years to complete and cost 159 million US dollars. The Baluarte Bridge has become an important part of the new highway connecting the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast in northern Mexico, significantly reducing the driving time from Durango to Mazatlan. The total length of the Baluarte Bridge is 1124 meters, with a main span of 520 meters and the bridge deck height above the valley floor at 403.4 meters, making it the cable-stayed bridge with the highest deck height in the world and the second highest bridge deck in the world (after the Siduhe Bridge in China). Additionally, surpassing the 482.5-meter main span of the John James Audubon Bridge in the United States, the Baluarte Bridge boasts the longest main span of any cable-stayed bridge in North America.

Baluarte Bridge
Reasons to visit: The world’s highest cable-stayed bridge
Continent: North America
Country: Mexico
States: Sinaloa and Durango