The engineering project will link the Argentine province of San Juan and the Coquimbo Region in Chile. It is an infrastructure project that requires a great deal of effort due to its location in the Andes mountain range.
An initiative of this magnitude requires high levels of funding. Its cost is around 1.500 million It will be financed by the governments of Argentina and Chile, with the help of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID).
The Agua Negra Pass does not only have a commercial and logistical valueBut plans to incorporate a scientific aspect.
The Andes Laboratory will be located on the border between Argentina and Chile, where studies of neutrinos and dark matter will be carried out, in a similar way to what is done at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), located in the mountains between Switzerland and France.
Once completed, the laboratory will be the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere. Not only the host countries will benefit from these facilities, but also the global scientific community.
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