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Puente Giratorio de Carmelo

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Eighty-eight metres of hand-cranked German iron, swinging open over the Arroyo de las Vacas since 1912 — Uruguay's only swing bridge, and by most accounts South America's first.

Puente Giratorio de Carmelo
Photo: Pablo Torrado · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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