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|official_name=Transbordador del Riachuelo Nicolás Avellaneda<ref name="GovernementGovernment">[http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar Buenos Aires, Gobierno de la Ciudad]: ''[http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/cpphc/sitios/detalle.php?id=11 Transbordador del Riachuelo]'', visited 2009-06-14</ref>

|open=[[31 May 1914]]

'''Puente Transbordador''' (also known as '''Buenos Aires Transporter Bridge''', '''Puente Transbordador de La Boca'''<ref name="todobuenosaires">[http://todobuenosaires.com Todos Buenos Aires]: ''[http://todobuenosaires.com/descripcion/descripcion_lugar.php?Id=598 Puente Transbordador de La Boca]'', visited 2009-06-14</ref> '''Puente Transbordador Nicolás Avellaneda''',<ref name="clarin restoration" />, '''Antiguo Puente Nicolás Avellaneda''' or '''Transbordador del Riachuelo'''<ref name="GovernementGovernment"/> ) is a [[transporter bridge]] in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] completed in 1914. The bridge was in use from its completion in 1914 until 1960, andwhen mayoperation beceased preserveduntil as2017. Since 1999 the bridge is a historical[[National monumentHistoric inMonument theof futureArgentina]].

The transporter bridge was the first link to connect the [[Buenos Aires]] with the outskirts on the other side of the [[Matanza River|Riachuelo River]]. The bridge links the Avenida La Plata in the neighbourhood Island Maciel of [[Dock Sud]] with Avenida Almirante Brown in the neighbourhood [[La Boca]] neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

The name of the bridge refers to [[Nicolás Avellaneda]], a former president of Argentina, who also gave the name to the [[Avellaneda Partido]] on the right borderbank of the river.

The platform of the transporter bridge measured 8 by 12 metersmetres and could be operated from a control stand on itself or from the machine house. It was designed to carry pedestrians, carts, cars and trams.

On September 25, 1908 the [[Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway]] was authorizedauthorised to build a transporter bridge uniting [[the city of Buenos Aires]] with the [[Buenos Aires Province]] Southsouth of the river [[Matanza River|Riachuelo River]]. The Buenos Aires Province bearedbore all the costs of the bridge despite it was also serving the cityArgentinian of Buenos Airescapital.

The transporter bridge was inaugurated May 31, 1914 and wasoperated operating tilluntil 1960,. despite the road bridgeThe [[Puente Nicolás Avellaneda]] road bridge (just 100 metres away), beingwas constructed in 1940.

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* [http://wwwtodobuenosaires.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/cpphccom/sitiosdescripcion/detalledescripcion_lugar.php?idId=11598 Puente Transbordador delde RiachueloLa Boca] on the official site ofin [http://wwwtodobuenosaires.buenosaires.gov.arcom Todos Buenos Aires Governement] ({{in Spanish) lang|es}}