The Baluarte Bridge held the record for the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world when it was inaugurated in 2012 with a maximum drop from the surface of the deck to the bottom of the Baluarte River of , according to the Guinness World Records, however, some diagrams of the bridge show a height of between the axis of the central span and the river, the bridge having a regular slope of . Its clearance is largely higher than that of the previous record-holder, France's Millau Viaduct, which has a clearance of but it was beaten by the high Duge Bridge in China, opened in 2016.
This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than or total lengths longer than .