Peruvians are using traditional weaving techniques to rebuild a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge that connects two communities divided by the Apurimac River. The Q’eswachaka Bridge collapsed in March because the pandemic prevented its usual maintenance. The skills used in building the 30-meter-long bridge are recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural property, and the rebuilding is "like an answer to the pandemic itself," says Cusco Regional Governor Jean Paul Benavente. “From the depths of the Peruvian Andean identity, this bridge is strung up across the Apurimac Basin, and we can tell the world that we are coming out of this little by little.”
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