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Verrugas Bridge

Verrugas Bridge, Steel truss bridge in Lima Department, Peru

Verrugas Bridge, also called Puente Carrión, is a steel bridge 175 metres long and about 77 metres high, at kilometre 60.5 of the Carretera Central in the Carrión valley, Huarochirí province, Lima Department. The current structure, completed in 1936 by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company, replaced two earlier bridges by Leffert L. Buck, a wrought-iron viaduct of 1873 and a cantilever design of 1891, both destroyed by floods.

The first bridge, a wrought-iron viaduct designed by Leffert L. Buck, opened in January 1873. A flood destroyed it in March 1889, and Buck's replacement cantilever bridge was completed in January 1891. Another flood wrecked that bridge in January 1934, and Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company finished the third bridge two years later.

The bridge takes its name from the Verrugas Canyon in the Carrión valley, at kilometre 60.5 of the Carretera Central in Huarochirí province. It is also called Puente Carrión, after the valley. The wrought-iron first viaduct of 1873 was designed by Leffert L. Buck, an American engineer later known for the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.

The bridge carries the Carretera Central at kilometre 60.5, in the Carrión valley of Huarochirí province, Lima Department. It is not open to pedestrians, so it is seen from the road itself or from the valley floor below. The structure stands about 77 metres high and 175 metres long.

The 1873 wrought-iron viaduct was designed by Leffert L. Buck, who later worked on the Brooklyn Bridge. His cantilever replacement, finished in January 1891, was swept away by a flood in January 1934; Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company completed the third bridge two years later.

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1936
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-11.88937,-76.48748
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