In other places they have been rendered ugly due to the lack of maintenance, or even destroyed by natural disasters, as occurred in 2008 in the Páez River valley in Colombia.
有些地方这些桥由于缺乏维护而不能再使用，而在另一些地方，有些桥甚至遭受到了自然灾难的破坏，如2008年哥伦比亚帕埃斯河谷的桥就是这样。