Culiacan, Mexico - President Felipe Calderón on Thursday received a Guinness record certifying a suspension bridge in western Mexico as the world’s highest.

The honor was bestowed on the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, which is supported by 152 steel suspenders, has a central, cable-stayed span of 520 meters (1705 feet), a total length of 1124 meters (3685 feet) and a width of 19.8 meters (65 feet).

Built at a world-record structural height of 403.4 meters (1320 feet), its four lanes extend over a jagged stretch of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range known as the Devil’s Backbone, which links Durango and the neighboring coastal state of Sinaloa.

The bridge is part of the Durango-Mazatlan highway, built at a cost of more than 20 billion pesos ($1.46 billion USD) and the most significant road project during Calderón's six-year term, which began in December 2006, the transportation ministry said in a statement.

The Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge will have a price tag of 2.18 billion pesos ($158.7 million USD). The span is nearly 86 percent complete and is scheduled to be finished by the end of January.