📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications, through Provias Nacional, continues working on the improvement projects of the Santa Maria - Santa Teresa - Machu Picchu Hydroelectric Bridge highway, located in the department of Cusco, province of La Convencion, and which will become an alternate route to the citadel of Machu Picchu.
As part of this project, six definitive bridges are being built that will optimize traffic through this road, whose lengths range between 45 and 60 meters. These are the Santa Maria bridge (60m), Quellomayo (60m), Pacaymayo (60m), Huadquina (45m), Santa Teresa (60m) and Vilcanota (60m).
The designs of these bridges meet the new engineering standards to face inclement weather, especially during the rainy season, which usually increases the flow of rivers and activates ravines, affecting roads and bridges. These new infrastructures include in their design a double-track concrete slab platform, two sidewalks each for pedestrian crossings, and side berms.
At the same time, the construction of the Machupicchu highway and tunnel is progressing, which when completed, will directly benefit more than 19 thousand inhabitants of the districts of Maranura, Santa Teresa and Machu Picchu, in the Cusco provinces of La Convencion and Urubamba, improving the quality of life of the population. These projects add up to an investment of more than S/ 500.1 million in total. To date, the road has a physical progress of 55.83%, while the tunnel 68.83%.
Likewise, they will optimize the level of passability along this route, favoring the transfer of passengers and cargo to local and regional markets and will strengthen tourism since it is presented as an alternative route to Machupicchu and the railway. In this way, we reiterate our commitment to prioritize works and projects in the department of Cusco, efficiently planning and executing the budget for road infrastructure and investment projects in the non-concessioned National Road Network.
