The Medellín - Manizales road is closed due to landslides

In recent hours, the Pacífico Tres concession, responsible for the Medellín - Manizales highway, reported that traffic between Antioquia and Caldas is blocked by a landslide that fell in the early hours of Thursday, April 21.

According to the concession, the detachment of the mountain was recorded due to heavy rains that fell during the night in the stretch that connects the municipalities of La Felisa and La Pintada, at kilometer 77+200.

Likewise, they reported that the landslide affected an Ecopetrol pipeline, which is operated by the company Cenit, so from the Pacífico Tres concession they warned that, “the corresponding safety protocols are being applied, which involve reviewing and evaluating the pipeline by Cenit and subsequently the restoration of the road in charge of the Concession”.

Given this, the concession announced that the total closure is between the PR76+580 and 78+900 of the La Felisa — La Pintada section and indefinite, “until the situation is overcome and the technical and safety conditions of the pipeline and the road are recovered”.

He added that at the moment there is no set schedule to enable traffic.

Finally, the concession recommended, if it is imperative to travel between the two cities, use the road between Medellín - La Dorada - Manizales.

Heavy rains have not stopped in the national territory and continue to cause damage on different roads of the country.

In the last hours it was also confirmed that the road connecting Bucaramanga with Barrancabermeja is closed due to a landslide that occurred between Wednesday night and today morning, Thursday 21 April.

Specifically, the landslide was recorded “at the height of the PR31+300 UF 3.2, alternate passage sector - Caño Seco bridge due to material sliding”, as confirmed by the Disaster Risk Management office of the department of Santander.

According to information from the newspaper Vanguardia, the governor of Santander, Mauricio Aguilar, confirmed that, “during the early hours of this Thursday machinery was moved and by noon today the passage could be enabled”.

Aguilar also told the Santandereano newspaper that, “this is a corridor with only one lane enabled because the Caño Seco bridge is under study and the concession has not yet determined that passage in the two roads will be restored.”

For his part, the director of Disaster Risk Management of Santander, César García, also informed Vanguardia that in order to restore the passage, yellow machinery was moved to Caño Seco.

Garcia called on drivers, who travel on this road to do so “with caution”.

INVÍAS, in turn, announced through Twitter and around one o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, April 21, that single-lane traffic has been enabled on this road of the Cocoa Route, as it is also known.

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