August 15, 2019
A road tunnel in northwestern Colombia’s department (subdivision) of Antioquia was officially opened to motor vehicle traffic. The Túnel de Oriente serves as a key link between Medellín, which is the capital of Antioquia and Colombia’s second largest city, and José María Córdova International Airport in the city of Rionegro. The public officials taking part in the inaugural ceremony for this 5.1-mile (8.2-kilometer)-long tunnel included Iván Duque, president of Colombia; and Luis Pérez, governor of Antioquia.
The Túnel de Oriente is the second longest vehicular tunnel in Latin America. The longest vehicular tunnel in that large region of the Americas is the Túnel de la Línea, which measures 5.4 miles (8.7 kilometers) in length; it is located between western-central Colombia’s cities of Calarcá in the department of Quindío and Cajamarca in the department of Tolima.
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For more information on the Túnel de Oriente, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BAnel_de_Oriente
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