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Landslide closes main road to Colombia's poverty-stricken west for a year
Medellin - Quibdo road (Image: Google Street View)
by Jack Norman May 31, 2019
A four-mile stretch on the main highway between the impoverished west of the country and Medellin will be closed for about one year as a result of a huge landslide, officials said.
The blockage is 30 kilometers southwest of Medellin on Highway 60, which connects Colombia’s second-largest city with Quibdo, the capital of the Choco province with a population of about 115,000.
In the landslide, about 300,000 cubic meters of earth and rock fell onto the road. That’s the equivalent of a cube about 220 feet wide, deep and high.
An early alert in two nearby towns was lifted, after water in the Sinifana stream began to flow over the dam created by the slide.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/landslide-closes-main-medellin-choco-highway-for-a-year/
