Infrastructure & urbanism in Latin America

[Gauthier]

Post completed, ongoing or future important infrastructure and mobility projects. This includes bridges, airports, skyscrapers, highways, subways, etc.

[Gauthier]

Baluarte Bridge

The highest cable-stayed bridge in the world, the third-highest bridge overall and the highest bridge in the Americas.

Location: Concordia in Sinaloa and Pueblo Nuevo in Durango, Northwestern Mexico
Cost: $158.7 million dollars
Status: Completed






Video trailer.

[Gauthier]

Mexico City International Airport (New)

A new Mexico City international airport was announced by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto in his State of the Union address on September 2, 2014, who said that it would be a national symbol. The new airport will replace Mexico City International Airport, which is at capacity. It is to have one large terminal of 560,000 square metres (6,000,000 sq ft) on a total lot of 4,600 hectares (11,400 acres). It will have three runways to start and will be expandable to up to six runways: two that are each 4,500 m (14,800 ft) long and four that are each 4,000 m (13,000 ft) long. With three runways in simultaneous use the airport will be able to serve up to 50,000,000 passengers per year.

The airport is expected, by the director of Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México, to be commercially open on October 20, 2020.

Location: Mexico City
Cost: 12.5 billion dollars
Status: Ongoing

[Gauthier]

Gran Torre Santiago

The Gran Torre Santiago (Spanish: "Great Santiago Tower"), previously known as Torre Gran Costanera, is a 64-story tall skyscraper in Santiago, Chile. It is the tallest building in Latin America and the second-tallest building by highest architectural feature in the Southern Hemisphere, behind Q1 in Australia, and the second-tallest in the Southern Hemisphere by highest occupied floor, behind the Eureka Tower (also in Australia).

Location: Santiago, Chile
Cost: US$1 billion
Status: Completed

[Graham]

Baluarte Bridge

The highest cable-stayed bridge in the world, the third-highest bridge overall and the highest bridge in the Americas.

Hadnt seen this, like a mini Millau viaduct. The views must be fantastic.

[Gauthier]

BBVA Bancomer Stadium

The Estadio BBVA Bancomer is a stadium developed by FEMSA and C.F. Monterrey in Guadalupe, Greater Monterrey. The stadium replaced the leased Estadio Tecnológico as the home of Monterrey, ending 63 years of residency at that stadium. It was inaugurated on 2 August 2015 with the eighth edition of the Eusébio Cup, where Monterrey defeated Benfica 3–0.

Location: Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, Northeastern Mexico
Capacity: 50,000 seats
Cost: $200 million dollars
Status: Completed

[curupira]

Itaipu dam in Paraná state, Brazil, a Brazilian-Paraguayan project (for a long time it was the largest hydroelectric complex in the world, it is the second largest now):

The Itaipu Dam (Guarani: Presa Itaipu, Portuguese: Barragem de Itaipu, Spanish: Represa de Itaipú; Portuguese pronunciation: [itɐjˈpu], locally: [ita.iˈpu], Spanish pronunciation: [itaiˈpu]) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guarani language, Itaipu means "the sounding stone".

The dam is the second largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual energy generation, generating 98.6 in 2013 and 87.8 TWh in 2014, while the annual energy generation of the Three Gorges Dam was 83.7 TWh in 2013 and 98.8 TWh in 2014.[2][3][1] It is a binational undertaking run by Brazil and Paraguay at the Paraná River on the border section between the two countries, 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Friendship Bridge. The project ranges from Foz do Iguaçu, in Brazil, and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, in the south to Guaíra and Salto del Guairá in the north. The installed generation capacity of the plant is 14 GW, with 20 generating units providing 700 MW each with a hydraulic design head of 118 metres (387 ft). In 2013 the plant generated a record 98.6 TWh, supplying approximately 75% of the electricity consumed by Paraguay and 17% of that consumed by Brazil.[2]

Of the twenty generator units currently installed, ten generate at 50 Hz for Paraguay and ten generate at 60 Hz for Brazil. Since the output capacity of the Paraguayan generators far exceeds the load in Paraguay, most of their production is exported directly to the Brazilian side, from where two 600 kV HVDC lines, each approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) long, carry the majority of the energy to the São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro region where the terminal equipment converts the power to 60 Hz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam

[MagicMan]

Impressive, lots of money being invested.

[alnortedelsur]

The bridge over the Maracaibo lake, in Venezuela, communicates the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo with the eastern coast of the lake of the same name, in Zulia state. This is one of the 10 longest bridges in the whole world, and is the longest bridge (about 8 Kms) from all South America and Latin America:

[alnortedelsur]

Bridge over the Orinoco river, communicating Ciudad Bolivar (Bolivar), in the southern shore of the river, with Anzoategui state, in the northern shore:



Second bridge over the Orinoco river, communicating Ciudad Guayana (Bolivar), in the southern shore of the river, with Anzoategui state, in the northern shore: