Description • Constructor: Brazilian Army - '1º Batalhão Ferroviário do Exército Brasileiro'.
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• Located in the municipality 154km away from Porto Alegre, its denomination is given to an existing railroad viaduct in the Wheat Railroad, in the stretch entrance of cities Vespasiano Correa and Muçum, in the Rio Grande Do Sul State.
• Denomination 13 has its origin in the fact of being the 13th of viaducts' sequence, initiating in the center of the city of Muçum, known as the “Princess of the Bridges”.
• The '1º Batalhão Ferroviário do Exército Brasileiro' of the first group of Brazilian Army during the decade of 70 has constructed it and having been projected since the end of World War II.
• Inaugurated by then president Ernesto Geisel in
19 August of 1978, is considered until today the tallest clearance railroad viaduct of Latin America and as one of the highest in the world, maybe the second, behind only the 198m high Viaduct Mala Rijeka in Montenegro.
• Its foundations are of the type low shoe race and are embedded 21 meters below the ground level. Each pillar is formed by four walls of 80 cm of average thickness.
• Curiosities:
The inhabitants of the place used to show to visitors a “X” spotted on the coal, difficult to be visualized, that indicates the place where supposedly three workers of the Army would have fallen inside the pillar between the walls of the pillars, during the landslide of a truss used during the construction, and that their bodies never would have been removed of inside. Others two soldiers would have been hung during two days in the place, waiting the assembly of a new truss to be able to go down, but these events are not confirmed by the Army.
• A rebelion of agricultors against local politicians reasons put fire to a load train, that passed in flames in the morning place in 1981.
• Currently, the place is looked for the rapel practice, since it offers an impressive height and a gorgeous landscape between the cliff of its canyon.
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