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The tunnel is officially named for Colombian engineer Guillermo Gaviria Echeverri , father of Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Aníbal Gaviria, and Sofía Gaviria ; he had the idea of tunnel under the alto del Toyo in 1980. [4] Excavation of the tunnel began in mid-2018, and was finished on 6 October 2023. [5]
La Línea (English: The Line) is a highway tunnel between the cities of Calarcá, Quindío and Cajamarca, Tolima in Colombia.It crosses beneath the locally famous "Alto de La Línea" in the Cordillera Central or central range of the Andes mountains, easing traffic on one of Colombia's main east-west road connections (the National Route 40) which links Bogotá with Cali and the Pacific port of ...
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The tunnel is the second longest vehicular tunnel in Latin America, after the Tunel de la Línea, and is expected to be surpassed by the under-construction Toyo Tunnel, both of which are also in Colombia. The entire project is made up of two tunnels—the main 8.2 km long tunnel and a shorter 774-metre (2,539 ft) long-tunnel—and nine viaducts.
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Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Tunnel history is a term coined by historian J. H. Hexter, to describe how historians divide past events ... [5] References This ...
The tunnel will link Bogotá and its urban area with the coffee-growing region, and with the main port on the Colombian Pacific coast. The Chicago Deep Tunnel Project is a network of 175 km (109 mi) of drainage tunnels designed to reduce flooding in the Chicago area. Started in the mid-1970s, the project is due to be completed in 2029.