Ricobayo Dam Arch Bridge

Ricobayo Dam Arch Bridge
Coordinates 15°N 26°E / 15°N 26°E / 15; 26Coordinates: 15°N 26°E / 15°N 26°E / 15; 26
Crosses Esla River
Locale Ricobayo, Zamora
Characteristics
Design Arch
Total length 219m (718.5 ft)
Width 11 m (33ft), 2 lanes
Longest span 164m (540 ft).
History
Opened 1936 or 1942

The Ricobayo Dam Arch Bridge is a supported deck arch bridge that carries the National 122 Road over the Ricobayo Reservoir at Esla River, in the province of Zamora, Spain. Its arch is a composite hollow box section of steel and concrete. The total length of the bridge is 219 m (718.5 ft) with an arch spanning 168 m (551 ft) and rising 23 m (75.5 ft) above the maximum water level of the reservoir.

Other bridges on the reservoir: Requejo viaduct has a steel arch stretching 120 m (394 ft) across the Duero River, designed by engineer Jose Eugenio Ribera in 1914, and Martin Gil Viaduct, measuring 192 m (630 ft), a world record in its day.

The confusion is that one source says Martín Gil Viaduct,[1] Zamora, 209 m was built 1942 and another that Rio Esla-Brücke,[2] Zamora, 192 m was built 1936.

References

  1. ↑ Martín Gil Viaduct at Structurae
  2. ↑ Rio Esla-Brücke (German)

Perez-Fadon, Santiago. Proyecto y construccion del Arco de Ricobayo, in "Hormigón y acero", 2nd Quarter 1999, n. 212.

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