New airport in Lima will be inspired by Nazca culture and will be shaped like a hummingbird
Lima’s new airport, which will require an investment of US$2 billion to serve 30 million passengers a year, will be inspired by the Nazca culture and will be shaped like a hummingbird, announced the company responsible for the project.
“This airport is going to be the most modern in Latin America. The investment is 2 billion dollars in the entire airport area,” Juan José Salomón, general manager of Lima Airport Partners (LAP), the company responsible for the terminal, told AFP.
“We have a building capacity for 30 million passengers per year, but we want to reach 40 million by 2025” with new buildings and the attraction of new airlines, he added in a tour with foreign press correspondents in Peru.
Jorge Chávez ‘Airport City’, as it is called, will use state-of-the-art technology for passenger control.
The new airport will be located next to the current Jorge Chávez air terminal, whose facilities are more than six decades old.
It will have 46 shipping chutes and construction began at the end of 2020 with an extension of 935 hectares.
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“It will be the only airport in South America (…) with a seismic isolation system,” said the director of the Airport Expansion Program, Bill Fullerton, from the United States.
The inauguration is scheduled for December 18. Some 8,000 workers and specialized technicians are working on the project.
“We want to position Peru not only as an airport hub, but also as a hub for services to the region,” said Salomón.
One of the most striking features of the new airport is its design inspired by the ancient Nazca culture (southern Peru), with a structure that will resemble the figure of a hummingbird.
“The hummingbird is a symbol of the Nazca culture that inspired the design,” Fullerton explained.
During construction, some 10,000 ceramic fragments from pre-Hispanic cultures were found. Of these fortuitous findings, 59 pieces were restored and have been declared National Cultural Heritage.
With information from AFP
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