Puente de la Mujer, cable-stayed swinging footbridge, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Spanning dock 3 (dique 3), the cable-stayed Puente de la Mujer ("Woman's Bridge") is a swinging footbridge in Puerto Madero barrio, a new commercial district of central Buenos Aires, in Argentina, South America. The single mast (cantilever spar) suspends part of the bridge with cables and rotates 90 degrees to allow ships to pass. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the bridge was built 1998-2001 in the Puerto Madero Waterfront area along the Río de la Plata. The Río de la Plata ("River of Silver," called River Plate in British English or Plata River elsewhere) is the tidal estuary confluence of Uruguay River and Paraná River on the border between Argentina and Uruguay. Its funnel shape indents the southeast coast of South America by 290 km (180 miles). Some geographers consider the Río de la Plata to be a gulf or marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, while others consider it the widest river in the world, up to 220 kilometres (140 mi) wide.

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Spanning dock 3 (dique 3), the cable-stayed Puente de la Mujer ("Woman's Bridge") is a swinging footbridge in Puerto Madero barrio, a new commercial district of central Buenos Aires, in Argentina, South America. The single mast (cantilever spar) suspends part of the bridge with cables and rotates 90 degrees to allow ships to pass. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the bridge was built 1998-2001 in the Puerto Madero Waterfront area along the Río de la Plata. The Río de la Plata ("River of Silver," called River Plate in British English or Plata River elsewhere) is the tidal estuary confluence of Uruguay River and Paraná River on the border between Argentina and Uruguay. Its funnel shape indents the southeast coast of South America by 290 km (180 miles). Some geographers consider the Río de la Plata to be a gulf or marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, while others consider it the widest river in the world, up to 220 kilometres (140 mi) wide.