Evaristo de Churruca: the engineer who ‘tamed’ the estuary

Bilbao, Bizkaia and the Basque Country as a whole owe a great debt to the engineer Evaristo de Churruca.
As the head of the Bilbao Port Works Board starting in 1877, this audacious engineer led the work necessary to channel the estuary, one of the major engineering feats undertaken in the history of Bizkaia.

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