Las Cabañas Bridge

	Las Cabañas Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Puerto Rico Historic Sites and Zones
	The Las Cabañas Bridge in 2017
	Las Cabañas Bridge Las Cabañas Bridge
Location	Spanning the Río de las Vacas on Highway 135, km 82.4; Barrios Capáez and Juan González,; Adjuntas municipality; Puerto Rico
Coordinates	18°10′47″N 66°44′11″W
Area	235.2 m2 (2,532 sq ft)
Built	1919
Built by	Félix Benítez Rexach
Engineer	Rafael Nones
MPS	Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS
NRHP reference No.	95000838
RNSZH No.	2000-(RC)-22-JP-SH
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1995
Designated RNSZH	March 15, 2001

The Las Cabañas Bridge (Spanish: Puente de Las Cabañas) is a historic highway bridge in Adjuntas municipality, Puerto Rico. Built in 1919 to provide access to a key coffee-producing region, it was financed by nearby plantations through public subscription. Designer Rafael Nones and builder Félix Benítez Rexach, two of the most prominent figures in Puerto Rican bridge construction in the early 20th century, used a unique combination of steel and concrete technologies to produce a girder design unlike any other on the island and possibly beyond.^[1]

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The bridge was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995,^[6] and to the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.^[7]

Notes

Several prose sources place the bridge in Barrios Capáez and Garzas,^[1]^[2]^[3] while other, map-based sources show it to be in Barrios Capáez and Juan González.^[4]^[5]

References

[1]
Pumarada O'Neill, Luis (July 31, 1994), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Las Cabañas Bridge (PDF), retrieved February 22, 2016.
[2]
Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (n.d.), Nuestros Puentes Históricos: Puentes de Otros Tipos [Our Historic Bridges: Bridges of Other Types] (in Spanish), archived from the original on April 27, 2010, retrieved February 24, 2016{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link).
[3]
Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica (April 1, 2014), Puente de Las Cabañas (PDF) (summary sheet), retrieved February 24, 2016.
[4]
Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica (n.d.), Puerto Rico: Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos [Puerto Rico: National Register of Historic Places] (online GIS), retrieved February 24, 2016.
[5]
Junta de Planificación (March 2009), Limites legales: Barrios [Legal boundaries: Barrios] (KML), retrieved February 24, 2016.
[6]
National Park Service (July 28, 1995), Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/17/95 through 7/21/95 (PDF), p. 45, retrieved February 23, 2016.
[7]
GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO, JUNTA DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO (December 7, 2022). "REGISTRO DE PROPIEDADES DESIGNADAS POR LA JUNTA DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO" (PDF). jp.pr.gov.