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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.
The tunnel was the longest in Latin America until the opening of La Línea in 2020. Transport in Colombia is regulated by the Ministry of Transport . Road travel is the main means of transport; 69 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air.
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.
Occidente tunnel, Antioquia. Pumarejo bridge over the Magdalena River , Barranquilla . Colombian geography presents formidable challenges to roadbuilders, who need to integrate its largest production centers deep within the Andes with major ports in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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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.