Metlac Highway Bridge

Metlac Highway Bridge
Puente Metlac Carretera
Fortin de las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico
420 feet high / 128 meters high
(400) foot span / (122) meter span
1972

Located next to the more famous Metlac Railway Bridge, the Metlac highway crossing rises 420 feet (128 mtrs) above the river. A large central steel girder span carries 4 lanes over the deep gorge. The bridge remained Mexico’s highest road bridge until the 1993 opening of Mezcala Bridge on the Mexico City-Acapulco highway.

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Metlac Highway Bridge Elevation