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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Tunnelling through the Andes
Argentina and Chile have agreed on all the details pertaining to the building Latin America’s biggest-ever road tunnel. The proposed 14-km ‘Agua Negra’ tunnel cuts through the Andes mountains and joins Chile’s northern region of Coquimbo and Argentina’s northern province of San Juan. Completing such an ambitious infrastructure project, which is slated to begin in 2019, should take between eight to ten years.
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