This bridge near Câmara de Lobos is more than 100 m high. Completed in the mid 1990s, it carries the highway VR 1 across the Ribeira dos Socorridos, one of the large gorges draining the Central Mountain Massif of Madeira towards the S coast.

Keywords

bridge, cable-stayed bridge, cultural landscape, fluvial erosion, fluvial processes, mountainscape, road traffic, traffic, Zonobiome IV

Created

Friday 22 April 2022 by Martin Mergili in Africa and Macaronesia / Madeira (1264 visits)