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Rumichaca Bridge Spanish: Puente internacional de Rumichaca | |
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.jpg) Entering Ecuador on the modern Rumichaca Bridge. | |
| Coordinates | 0°48′55″N 77°39′54″W / 0.8153°N 77.6649°W |
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The Rumichaca Bridge (Quechua rumi stone, chaka bridge,[1] "stone bridge") is the principal highway passage between Colombia and Ecuador. The bridge is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the city of Ipiales, Colombia and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city of Tulcán, Ecuador.[2] The bridge is located in the Andes at an elevation of 2,763 metres (9,065 ft).[3] The Pan-American Highway crosses the bridge.
- ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
- ^ Casas Gragea, Angel Maria and Orbes Revelo, Belky, "Border Integration and Land Transport of Merchandise between Colombia and Ecuador", p. 56, http://www19.iadb.org/intal/intalcdi/integracion_comercio/i_INTAL_IYT_38_2014_CasasGragea_Revelo.pdf, accessed 1 June 2017
- ^ Google Earth