La NASA quedó en shock con lo que científicos estadounidenses descubrieron en el puente Baluarte
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For four centuries, crossing the Sierra Madre Occidental was a perilous journey. The muleteers gave that path a name: the Devil's Backbone. And it wasn't a poetic nickname; it was a warning.
In January 2012, a group of Mexican engineers suspended a highway 402 meters above the Baluarte River, in the most brutal canyon on the continent. When American scientists arrived to study the structure with their own instruments, they discovered that the bridge's world record was the LEAST impressive thing about the whole affair. What lay beneath was something else entirely: the largest province of volcanic rock on the planet, the worst terrain in the world for construction, a terrain that, from satellites, looks just like the surface of Mars.
This is the story told by Daniel Whitmore, an American structural engineer and geophysicist who, in 2007, wrote the word "impossible" in his notebook next to the project's name, and who five years later had to redo his entire university course.
In this video you will discover:
• Why the Baluarte Bicentenario Bridge held the Guinness World Record for the tallest cable-stayed bridge in the world (January 5, 2012) and why it REMAINS the tallest bridge in the Americas
• Its height of 402.57 meters: 133 meters taller than the Millau Viaduct in France
• How Mexico surpassed the United States in its own field with the longest cable-stayed span in North America (520 meters)
• What ignimbrite is and why it is the worst rock in the world for bridge foundations
• The 60 tunnels and 115 bridges along the 230-kilometer Durango-Mazatlán highway
• How the first tools were hauled up the canyon: by mules, in 2007
• Why the knowledge of Mexican engineers and workers cannot be bought or replaced
The 1,100 men and women who lived in camps in those mountains for years will not be forgotten to appear in any history book. This video exists so that it won't be forgotten.
If this story filled you with pride, subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications. Every week we upload a story where the world had to acknowledge Mexico.
Leave us a comment: Have you crossed the Baluarte Bridge? What did you feel?
VERIFIABLE VIDEO FACTS:
Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge · Durango–Sinaloa, Mexico
Deck height: 402.57 m above the Baluarte River
Total length: 1,124 m · Main span: 520 m
Main pier (P5): 169 m high
76 cables and 152 stays in a semi-fan configuration
Construction began: February 21, 2008 · Inauguration: January 5, 2012
Durango–Mazatlán Highway: ~230 km, 60 tunnels, 115 bridges
Longest tunnel (El Sinaloense): 2,789 m
Travel time: from 6–8 hours to 2.5–3 hours
#BaluarteBridge #MexicanPride #MexicanEngineering
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Gracias, Dios bendito, porque yo soy mexicana.
Además muy EMOTIVO
La NASA quedó en shock con lo que científicos estadounidenses descubrieron en el puente Baluarte
El Mundo Habla de México
242,390 views
For four centuries, crossing the Sierra Madre Occidental was a perilous journey. The muleteers gave that path a name: the Devil's Backbone. And it wasn't a poetic nickname; it was a warning.
In January 2012, a group of Mexican engineers suspended a highway 402 meters above the Baluarte River, in the most brutal canyon on the continent. When American scientists arrived to study the structure with their own instruments, they discovered that the bridge's world record was the LEAST impressive thing about the whole affair. What lay beneath was something else entirely: the largest province of volcanic rock on the planet, the worst terrain in the world for construction, a terrain that, from satellites, looks just like the surface of Mars.
This is the story told by Daniel Whitmore, an American structural engineer and geophysicist who, in 2007, wrote the word "impossible" in his notebook next to the project's name, and who five years later had to redo his entire university course.
In this video you will discover:
• Why the Baluarte Bicentenario Bridge held the Guinness World Record for the tallest cable-stayed bridge in the world (January 5, 2012) and why it REMAINS the tallest bridge in the Americas
• Its height of 402.57 meters: 133 meters taller than the Millau Viaduct in France
• How Mexico surpassed the United States in its own field with the longest cable-stayed span in North America (520 meters)
• What ignimbrite is and why it is the worst rock in the world for bridge foundations
• The 60 tunnels and 115 bridges along the 230-kilometer Durango-Mazatlán highway
• How the first tools were hauled up the canyon: by mules, in 2007
• Why the knowledge of Mexican engineers and workers cannot be bought or replaced
The 1,100 men and women who lived in camps in those mountains for years will not be forgotten to appear in any history book. This video exists so that it won't be forgotten.
If this story filled you with pride, subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications. Every week we upload a story where the world had to acknowledge Mexico.
Leave us a comment: Have you crossed the Baluarte Bridge? What did you feel?
VERIFIABLE VIDEO FACTS:
Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge · Durango–Sinaloa, Mexico
Deck height: 402.57 m above the Baluarte River
Total length: 1,124 m · Main span: 520 m
Main pier (P5): 169 m high
76 cables and 152 stays in a semi-fan configuration
Construction began: February 21, 2008 · Inauguration: January 5, 2012
Durango–Mazatlán Highway: ~230 km, 60 tunnels, 115 bridges
Longest tunnel (El Sinaloense): 2,789 m
Travel time: from 6–8 hours to 2.5–3 hours
#BaluarteBridge #MexicanPride #MexicanEngineering