PR 14, km. 39.3, Cuyon Ward, Coamo, Puerto Rico. County/parish: Coamo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 17, 2009. NRIS 09000042.
Part of Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS (NRIS 64500544).
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Puente de las Calabazas is a single-span lattice girder bridge over the Cuyón River near Coamo, Puerto Rico on the Carreterra Central that dates from 1882. It was designed by Ricardo (or Raimundo?) Camprubi and was fabricated by Eugen Rollin and Co., a Belgian firm that exported via Spain from Braine le Comte, Belgium. Prolific engineer Camprubí designed several single span lattice bridges in Puerto Rico. He also designed the first two-span lattice girder bridge in Puerto Rico, the Padre Inigo Bridge (in Coamo, No. 174), which is also NRHP-listed. All of these were part of the Carretera Central.
It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518198