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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 ...
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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Map of the Colombia highway network. Freeway of Route 25 between Tuluá and Andalucía, Valle del Cauca. In 2014 there were 2,279 kilometers of dual carriageway highways in Colombia. Occidente tunnel, Antioquia. Pumarejo bridge over the Magdalena River, Barranquilla.
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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.
Preliminary construction on the dam began in September 2011 and the power plant was expected to begin operations in late 2018, but will not after heavy rainfall and landslides in April/May 2018 blocked the river's diversion tunnel, threatening a breach of the dam. [2] If completed, it will be the largest power station in Colombia. [3]