The National Government will conclude, through the Invías, this strategic corridor, which includes the construction of 61 bridges and 11 tunnels, which will improve mobility to the center of the country.
The works of the San Francisco-Mocoa Bypass, which will promote the development of the Putumayo and Nariño departments, and the entire southern region of the country, will begin next month and will generate more than 3,000 jobs, said the Vice President of the Republic, Marta Lucía Ramírez, on a visit to the area.
The project was awarded last March to the CM Putumayo Consortium, in charge of paving 8.3 km of open-air road, 11 tunnels totaling 2.8 kilometers and 61 bridges and 15.2-kilometer viaducts. This work is part of the Vías para la Legidad, within the framework of the economic reactivation strategy.
‘The San Francisco-Mocoa variant is the most anticipated road infrastructure work for all Putumayo residents. Today we are here, on behalf of President Iván Duque Márquez, to open up this ambitious project. With this work we will generate 3,275 new jobs for the citizens of Putumayo and Nariño, especially for the indigenous population and women of the region, ‘said the Vice President at the end of the journey, from the town of San Francisco to kilometer 5 of the project.
For his part, the Technical Director of the National Highways Institute (Invías), Guillermo Toro Acuña, affirmed that this variant is “a historical fact for mobility in southern Colombia.”
The variant reduces travel times and logistics operation expenses, thereby benefiting the commercialization of local agricultural products.
The CM Putumayo Consortium is made up of Construcciones El Cóndor and Sociedad Constructora Meco. Together with the auditing contract, the project will have a total value of $ 1.2 billion, the second largest investment made by Invías through the Commitment for Colombia.
The first were the access roads to the Guillermo Gaviria Echeverri Tunnel and the acquisition, installation and operation of the electromechanical equipment, with a total cost of $ 1.4 billion.
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