Puente Jenny Garzón, Pedestrian bridge in Engativá and Suba, Colombia.
Puente Jenny Garzón is a pedestrian bridge connecting the northwestern districts of Engativá and Suba in Bogotá. The structure spans 45 meters at the intersection of Carrera 119 and Calle 80.
The bridge was inaugurated on 30 December 2003 by Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus, IDU director María Isabel Patiño and Risaralda governor Elsa Cifuentes. Architect Simón Vélez designed it and Marcelo Villegas oversaw the structural assembly. Its roughly 3,000 guadua culms, donated by Bambú de Colombia, came from Quimbaya, Quindío; the IDU funded foundations and ramps and the SENA paid the labour. Resistance tests later cut 80 tonnes by replacing concrete flooring with sapán wood and clay roof tiles with bamboo and synthetic material.
The bridge honours Jenny Varinia Garzón Caicedo, an architect from the National University of Colombia who studied guadua and bamboo as building materials alongside Simón Vélez. She was born in Bogotá on 15 May 1973 and killed in Chía on 2 February 2000. Her father, Angelino Garzón, later became vice-president of Colombia.
The crossing functions as a link for the bicycle path connecting Parque La Florida with the Lisboa neighborhood. Local residents use this route daily for their journeys through both districts.
The bridge is not a pedestrian crossing but a 45-metre footbridge over Calle 80, and it is the largest structure in the world built in guadúa bamboo. Its 3,000 bamboo poles were donated by Bambú de Colombia and brought from Quimbaya, Quindío. The gable bears the name "JENNY GARZÓN" and the year 2003.
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