Puente de Arcediano, Suspension bridge in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Puente de Arcediano is a pedestrian suspension bridge over a wooded ravine in the Barranca de Huentitán, northeast Guadalajara. Two tall square towers of stacked reddish stone with dark caps stand on the left, facing two shorter matching towers on the right, all on stone bases. Thin dark cables run from the towers to a tan metal truss walkway with a diamond lattice pattern. A paved plaza and a low pink stone bench sit below the left towers.

The original bridge was built in 1894 to designs by Salvador Collado Jasso, who took European bridges and New York's Brooklyn Bridge as models. Its load was tested with mules and donkeys until it carried 36 mules, 104 donkeys and 6 drivers. The old structure was lost in the 1950s, and the 1952 replacement did not resemble it. Dismantling began in May 2007 for the planned Arcediano dam, which was never built; a replica was erected 700 m downstream from May 2011 and finished in late 2012 at a cost of 20 million pesos.

The bridge took its name from the Arcediano community in the Huentitán ravine. Its 1894 opening gave the settlements of Ixtlahuacán del Río, Cuquío, Yahualica, Teocaltiche and Zacatecas a direct road link to Guadalajara, and the crossing carried mule and donkey traffic that supported trade in the surrounding towns.

The rebuilt bridge stands about 700 metres downstream from the original site, in the Barranca de Huentitán on Guadalajara's north-eastern edge. The deck is a metal truss with a diamond lattice pattern, reached from a paved plaza at the left towers; a low stone wall links the towers there. The walkway is for pedestrians only.

The 1894 bridge was tested by driving mules and donkeys across it until it held 36 mules, 104 donkeys and 6 drivers at once. The original was lost in the 1950s, and the 2012 reconstruction reused late-19th-century materials and techniques at a cost of 20 million pesos.