PR 15 over Rio Guamani, Guayama, Puerto Rico. County/parish: Guayama.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 19, 1995. NRIS 95000845.
Part of Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS (NRIS 64500544).
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Cayey Bridge, also known as Puente de Cayey, is an iron lateral lattice girder bridge in Puerto Rico that was built in 1891. It brings Puerto Rico Highway 15 over the Guamaní River. Despite its name, its actually closer to the city of Guayama and not Cayey.
It is an extremely rare example of such a bridge in the United States or its territories. Puerto Rico has the only bridges in the United States, or its territories, built with this technology.
The bridge was fabricated by the Belgian firm Nicrisse & Decluve. The girder bridge has two independent spans.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518215