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Honduras invested heavily in building a bridge. After a hurricane, why is the bridge still there and the river gone?

It is the most normal practice for every country to build bridges on rivers flowing through its territory. However, the purpose of building the bridge is to realize cross-strait traffic. However, in Honduras, Latin America, there is such a bridge that stands alone on the shore and there is no river under it. On the contrary, there is a bright long river on one side of the bridge, which makes people wonder whether it was not designed well when the bridge was built.

In fact, Honduras said: I am innocent, too. I hope you will listen to me carefully ~

A bridge without a river. This seemingly absurd bridge is called Cholutka Bridge, which was originally named after the nearby river. However, at present, this bridge is somewhat unworthy of its name.

In the last century, due to the frequent local hurricanes, the water volume of the river will rise sharply every time a hurricane comes, so the government decided to build a high-quality bridge over the Cholutka River to make the local people live a better life. So in 1996, the bridge was completed, which really provided great convenience for people on both sides of the local river.

However, in the second year after the completion of the bridge, the local area suffered a powerful hurricane.

Powerful hurricane: Mitch 1998, that is, the year after the completion of the Qiaolutka Bridge, the local area suddenly encountered a relatively powerful hurricane-Mitch. At present, we can't find this name on the hurricane naming list, because all hurricane names that cause serious casualties and economic losses will be deleted from the naming list, especially those that cause serious losses. And "Mickey" belongs to the kind of hurricane that was removed, indicating that the impact of this hurricane is still quite serious.

An obvious feature of the impact of Hurricane Mitch is that the local precipitation reached nearly 9 12 mm, equivalent to the sum of Beijing in the past two years. The precipitation brought by Mickey didn't stop there, because staying in Honduras for a few days eventually led to the local 1900 mm rainfall.

Such heavy rainfall directly led to the flooding of local rivers and caused serious damage to the local area. * * * The flood caused 1 10,000 people to die, 1 10,000 people were missing, and nearly 150 local bridges were destroyed, not to mention many houses and buildings.

However, the bridge did not stand in this disaster, which was very unexpected for the local people. However, as the flood continued, the local people finally found out that something was wrong, because Hurricane Mitch actually "changed" the river course and left the Cholutka Bridge in its original place, because there was no river passing under the bridge, and the whole picture was very funny.

This phenomenon is due to the super precipitation caused by the hurricane. The river water caused by the precipitation began to wash quicksand from the land near the river channel to the river channel, and the sediment in the river channel piled up on one side due to the earth's offset, which made the river channel begin to change slowly, leading to the direct change of the river channel to the outside of the bridge.

After the diversion of the Cholutka River, it is not far, just beside the bridge. As a result, the bridge lost its left and right sides and could only stand alone on the ground, completely becoming a "useless" project.

There is no bridge in the Amazon River, and many people are full of doubts about it. A large part of the reason is that there is always precipitation, frequent floods and frequent changes in rivers in the Amazon region, so it is meaningless to build bridges in the Amazon region.