page_title: Evaristo de Churruca y Brunet
hierarchical_section_title: Evaristo de Churruca y Brunet
caption_attribution_description: Català: Monumento a Evaristo Churruca en Guecho, años 1930, cerca del Puente Colgante. El monumento se llama "La lucha del hombre contra el mar", ya que Churruca consiguió hacer más navegable la ría de Bilbao. El monumento representa a un hombre empujando una gigantesca piedra sobre el dios Neptuno, a quien se le ha caído la corona y cuyo tridente yace roto en el suelo. English: Monument to Evaristo Churruca, near the Puente Colgante, 1930s. The monument is called "The struggle of man against the sea", due to the fact that Churruca improved the safety to ships of the Ría de Bilbao. The monument depicts a man pushing a slab of stone over the God Neptune, whose attributes, Trident and Crown, lay broken on the ground.
context_page_description: Evaristo de Churruca y Brunet was a Spanish engineer. He directed diverse construction work in Murcia and Biscay and subsequently was transferred to Puerto Rico, where he was in charge of the installation of the telegraphic network of the island and carried out a study for the improvement of the port of San Juan. Returning to Spain, he took charge of the works of the exterior Port of Bilbao and canalization of the Nervion River.
  A monument was erected to honour him in the town of Getxo at the mouth of the Nervion River, which he definitely straightened allowing the further developing of Bilbao's industrial power.
context_section_description: Evaristo de Churruca y Brunet (Oltza, 1841-Bilbao, 1917) was a Spanish engineer. He directed diverse construction work in Murcia and Biscay and subsequently was transferred to Puerto Rico, where he was in charge of the installation of the telegraphic network of the island and carried out a study for the improvement of the port of San Juan.  Returning to Spain, he took charge of the works of the exterior Port of Bilbao and canalization of the Nervion River.
  A monument was erected to honour him in the town of Getxo at the mouth of the Nervion River, which he definitely straightened allowing the further developing of Bilbao's industrial power.
caption: Monument to Evaristo Churruca in Getxo.
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