It is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in South America and, at the time of its completion in 1997, ranked 20th in the world.
It reduced the travel time between them by up to 40 minutes, avoiding the need to descend to the bottom of the river valley.
On May 5, 2021, during the 2021 strike demonstrations, university activist Lucas Villa and two people who were gathered in a plato on the Viaduct, were hit with firearm projectiles from an unknown white car.
[8] Galindez, N. et al. (2003), "Implementation of a modal identification methodology on the Pereira-Dos Quebradas cable-stayed bridge".
Presented at the 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 2003, University of Washington, Seattle.