Nicaragua inaugurated the new Wawa bridge, which connects the North Caribbean with the Pacific, for a value of 176.7 million dollars, and will benefit almost 44,000 Nicaraguans, authorities reported Thursday.
The 255-meter-long bridge built over the Wawa Boom River, financed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), is one of the “most important works of progress that has been built in recent years” in Nicaragua, said the Nicaraguan Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, Retired General Oscar Mojica, to official media.
“It is a complex work that includes five bridges and three kilometers of alignments to be able to correctly manage the waters” of the mighty river, the official said.
He stressed that with the construction of this bridge, officially inaugurated on Wednesday, it will be possible to overcome “the greatest connectivity obstacle that existed” in Nicaragua, as well as the isolation of the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (Raccn).
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For its part, CABEI highlighted that “for the first time in the history” of Nicaragua, the North Caribbean Coast is permanently connected to the rest of the Central American country, thanks to the construction of the Wawa bridge.
The work, which he described as “greatly important for the economic and social development of the area”, had the financial support of CABEI as part of the works contemplated in the VIII Program for the Improvement and Expansion of Roads within the Sahsa – Bilwi Project, he explained.
The new structure on the Wawa Boom River was built through a system of successive voussoirs, with a maximum span of 140 meters, being the longest in the country, directly benefiting 43,945 inhabitants and indirectly another 149,666, said that financial entity.
“We are pleased with the completion of this transcendental work for Nicaragua that will transform the connections in the North Caribbean region, its economy and, above all, the well-being of its inhabitants who were used to seeing traffic interrupted for up to seven days due to floods. of the river,” CABEI Executive President Dante Mossi said in a written statement.
In addition to the bridge, the work included the construction of the road section, four relief bridges, three culverts, 120 vertical signs, 9,300 meters of horizontal signs and 480 meters of metal defenses, CABEI detailed.
