BACKGROUND

The Mesopotamia Provinces are located in the northeastern part of Argentina and are the principal location for much of Argentina's commercial and industrial activity. A major impediment to the further economic development of the region and access to the rest of the nation was the lack of adequate transportation infrastructure to transport people and particularly goods between these provinces and to the rest of Argentina.

By the early 1990s, the Government of Argentina recognized the need to improve accessibility between several of these provinces heretofore cut off from direct connection by a major river valley. What was needed was a way to span the river valley so that highways built from either end of the bridge would enable direct vehicular access. The solution was to build a major bridge that could provide a direct connection between the capital cities of the Province of Santa Fe and the Province of Entre Rios. A major dilemma was how to fund and operate that resulting bridge facility.

Exhibit 4.13 provides an area-wide map showing the geographic location of the bridge within the northeast Mesopotamia Provinces of Argentina.

Exhibit 4.13 Rosario-Victoria Bridge Site Map

Source: URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario-Victoria_bridge