The Government declared a state of emergency in the district of Tingo, Amazonas region, due to the impact of the damage caused by the collapse of the perimeter wall of the Kuelap Archaeological Complex.
Supreme Decree No. 040-2022-PCM, which makes this measure official, was published today in the Official Gazette El Peruano. It states that the state of emergency will be in effect for 60 calendar days. During this time, emergency, response and rehabilitation measures and actions will be implemented in the affected areas.
The regulation also states that the Ministry of Culture, with the technical coordination and follow-up of the National Institute of Civil Defence (Indeci) and the participation of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, and other public and private institutions involved; will carry out emergency response and rehabilitation actions.
These must have a direct link of causality between the interventions and the event, and may be modified according to the needs and security elements that arise. Implementation will be financed from the institutional budget of the sectors involved.
The supreme decree is signed by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo; and is endorsed by the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres; and by the Ministers of Culture, Alejandro Salas; Interior, Alfonso Chávarry; Defense, José Luis Gavidia; and Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sánchez.
This decree is adopted at the request of the Ministry of Culture, which submitted a technical report on the fact. In this, the authorities verified that due to the heavy rains that have occurred in the Tingo district, a sector on the south side of the perimeter wall of the Kuelap Archaeological Complex, affecting the cultural heritage of the nation.
“This declaration of emergency is for 60 days, with an investment of approximately 2 million soles, to prop up the walls, mesh and stop the collapses. While there is a diagnosis that collapses may continue, we will safeguard the lives of all people during the work, which is why companies must have life insurance. We are not going to stop until Kuelap is recovered and lifted,” said Culture Minister Alejandro Salas during the press conference of the Council of Ministers of the past wednesday.
The Minister of Culture also announced that a multidisciplinary team is in place to identify all archaeological sites that are at risk and also declare them in emergency.
To date, the sector has allocated S/ 1,309,182 soles from the budget to finance interventions aimed at the care, maintenance and restoration of the Kuélap archaeological site.
Of that amount, S/139,286 soles were allocated to the attention of the recent emergency, which includes the acquisition of plasticized canvas fabric and its installation, black plastic security seals, polypropylene geogrid and its installation, as well as corrugated steel rods.
The technical report points out that this collapse of the Kuelap wall also affects the livelihoods of the population, so intervention is necessary technical and operational performance of the entities of the National Government.
This report is added to another report, prepared by Indeci, which reveals that the magnitude of the damage reported demands the adoption of urgent measures to enable the various State institutions to implement measures to address this emergency.
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