The Magapit Bridge is

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spanning that connects the east and west sides of the

Cagayan River The Cagayan River, also known as the Río Grande de Cagayán, is the longest river and the largest river by discharge volume of water in the Philippines. It has a total length of approximately and a drainage basin covering . It is located in ...

Lal-lo Lal-lo, officially the Municipality of Lal-Lo (; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 48,733 people. During the Spanish colonial period, Lal-lo was known as Munici ...

Cagayan Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan (; ; ; isnag language, Isnag: ''Provinsia nga Cagayan''; ivatan language, Ivatan: ''Provinsiya nu Cagayan''; ; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Cag ...

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. Opened in 1978, it carries

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, linking Barangays Bangag and Magapit in Lal-lo. The bridge was also named by the locals as the "''

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of Cagayan''". This bridge is one of the only two bridges in the province that runs across the mighty waterway of the Cagayan River. The late Engr. Angel G. Villanueva was the project engineer of Magapit suspension bridge under IWCDC (owned by the Dys) and Japanese consultants.

Rehabilitation

The bridge undergone rehabilitation that started on May 16, 2012 and ended November 20, 2012. Traffic in that area were serviced by ferry boats in lieu of the rehabilitation. The rehabilitation project had an estimated cost of .DPWH: Magapit Bridge closed starting May 16 for repair {{cite web , url=http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=461336016291 , title=PIA | Philippine Information Agency | DPWH: Magapit Bridge closed starting May 16 for repair , website=Philippine Information Agency , access-date=2012-05-28 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120805112547/http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=461336016291 , archivedate=2012-08-05

References

Bridges in the Philippines Buildings and structures in Cagayan