Bridge of Penipe from Humboldt's “Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas”

In June 1802, Alexander von Humboldt crossed the river Chambo in Ecuador, by a rope bridge, called the Bridge of Penipe. Later he described and depicted that bridge in his book “Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas”. More than 200 years later, we tried to revisit that place, but as so often during this trip, instead of finding the bridge we had an interesting conversion with the residents of the village Penipe, based on Humboldt's drawing. Here is a small spanish excerpt.