{"id":6877,"date":"2024-12-02T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/el-puente-vasco-da-gama-el-mas-largo-de-uropa"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:52:12","slug":"el-puente-vasco-da-gama-el-mas-largo-de-uropa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/en\/el-puente-vasco-da-gama-el-mas-largo-de-uropa\/","title":{"rendered":"El Puente Vasco da Gama, el m\u00e1s largo de Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El Puente Vasco da Gama es un puente atirantado que se encuentra situado sobre el r\u00edo Tajo, conectando Montijo con Sacav\u00e9m, en Portugal, y es el puente m\u00e1s largo de Europa con una longitud de 17,3 kil\u00f3metros, siendo una de las mayores atracciones tur\u00edsticas de la zona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/puentevascodagama-9.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"puentevascodagama\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Durante su <strong>construcci\u00f3n participaron m\u00e1s de 3.000 personas<\/strong> y <strong>cuatro equipos de ingenier\u00eda.<\/strong> El motivo fue descongestionar el Puente 25 de Abril, que presentaba frecuentes problemas de atascos, y, de esta manera, tambi\u00e9n se facilitaba la comunicaci\u00f3n del sur de este pa\u00eds con Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/puentevascodagama2-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"puentevascodagama2\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adem\u00e1s de ser <strong>el puente m\u00e1s largo de Europa<\/strong> es uno de los de mayor longitud del planeta con <strong>17,3 kil\u00f3metros de longitud,<\/strong> 10 de los cuales se encuentran sobre el Mar de la Paja. Sobre esta gran obra de ingenier\u00eda discurre una autopista con 6 carriles en un<strong> ancho de 30 metros<\/strong>. <strong>La altura de la estructura es de 150 metros.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/puentevascodagama3-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" alt=\"puentevascodagama3\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La construcci\u00f3n de Vasco da Gama se dividi\u00f3 en cuatro partes y se tuvieron que tomar medidas especiales con el fin de causar el menor impacto ambiental en la zona, ya que se encuentra emplazado muy pr\u00f3ximo al Parque Natural del Estuario del Tajo. El puente puede <strong>aguantar rachas de viento de hasta 250 kil\u00f3metros por hora<\/strong> y de<strong> soportar grandes terremotos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/puentevascodagama4-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"puentevascodagama4\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La decisi\u00f3n de la construcci\u00f3n del puente fue tomada en el a\u00f1o 1991 y las obras, que comenzaron en 1995, tuvieron una duraci\u00f3n de 3 a\u00f1os. Su nombre se debe al explorador portugu\u00e9s Vasco da Gama, conmemorando su llegada a la India 500 a\u00f1os antes de la inauguraci\u00f3n del puente. <strong>El coste del Puente Vasco da Gama fue de 897 millones de euros.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/puentevascodagama1-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"puentevascodagama1\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-responsive-embed-wrapper hs-responsive-embed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; max-width: 560px; max-height: 315px; min-width: 256px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;\">\n<p><iframe title=\"The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Total length of 17.2 kms \/ 10.7 miles)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxgLj3LvX78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/es_ES\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Puente Vasco da Gama es un puente atirantado que se encuentra situado sobre el r\u00edo Tajo, conectando Montijo con Sacav\u00e9m, en Portugal, y es el puente m\u00e1s largo de Europa con una longitud de 17,3 kil\u00f3metros, siendo una de las mayores atracciones tur\u00edsticas de la zona. \u00a0 Durante su construcci\u00f3n participaron m\u00e1s de 3.000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ingenieria-y-construccion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Puente Vasco da Gama, el m\u00e1s largo de Europa - Blog y noticias sobre ingenier\u00eda | Structuralia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"El Puente Vasco da Gama, el m\u00e1s largo de Europa. 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