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Project # 024 - Naupachaca Suspended Bridge
Location: Peru;
Maranon River, District of Cahuac, Province of Yarowilca, Region of Huanuco
Peru Sponsor: Cahuac
Municipality
Other Support: Rotary
Club of Lince, Lima Peru
Local Community Sponsor: District
of Cahuac; Community of Cahuac – labor and local materials
Trainees: District engineers
from Cahuac; FONCODES engineers, Huanuco.
Bridge name:
Naupachaca Suspended Bridge
River name: Maranon River
Bridge span: 75 meter span
(246 feet)
Population served by bridge:
Approximately 5000 people
Bridge Story:
Many years ago, a bridge crossed the Rio Maranon allowing villagers access
to the town of Cahuac and thus access to markets for their produce and
trade and education for their children. Six years ago that access was
snatched away by vicious floods in the Maranon – one of Peru’s
largest rivers. Since then the villagers across the river have been the
prisoners of the great river locked in their land producing products for
trade, but with none to trade with. A bridge across the Maranon will change
all that and they will once more be able to reap the benefits of their
hard work of the land.
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