Qualla: Ojuela https://qualla.com/ojuela en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/w/4/ojuela-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ojuela https://qualla.com/ojuela Ojuela: Introduction https://qualla.com/ojuela/ Photo credit BlatZzz, CC BY-SA 3.0. The bridge is the last thing standing. Ojuela's church is a ruin, its miners' houses are foundations without walls, and its saloons have not poured a drink in nearly a century. But the suspension bridge -- the Puente de Ojuela, originally designed by the Roebling brothers, the same engineers behind the Brooklyn Bridge -- still stretches across the canyon, connecting a ghost town to nothing in particular. When it was completed in 1898, it was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world. Now it connects tourists and mineral collectors to one of Mexico's most atmospheric abandoned places, five kilometers northwest of the old mining town of Mapimi in the Durango desert.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/w/4/ojuela-wp/9sw4-ojuela-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ojuela: Silver in the Sierra https://qualla.com/ojuela/ Photo credit Peter Burger, CC BY-SA 3.0. Spanish prospectors discovered abandoned mines in these mountains in 1598, and the potential was immediately clear. Gold and silver lay in the rock, and within years a settlement had taken root at the mountaintop near the main mine entrance. The logic was simple: keep the workers...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/w/4/ojuela-wp/9sw4-ojuela-silver-in-the-sierra.mp3 0:06 2 full Ojuela: Revolution and Ruin https://qualla.com/ojuela/ Photo credit Peter Burger, CC BY-SA 3.0. The twentieth century brought two enemies the mines could not defeat. The Mexican Revolution, which swept northern Mexico from 1910 onward, disrupted operations with the chaos that accompanied it. More insidious was the water that seeped into the mine shafts, flooding the tunnels...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/w/4/ojuela-wp/9sw4-ojuela-revolution-and-ruin.mp3 0:06 3 full Ojuela: The Bridge That Outlived Its Purpose https://qualla.com/ojuela/ Photo credit BlatZzz, CC BY-SA 3.0. The original Puente de Ojuela was built in 1898 by the Roebling brothers -- Washington and his family's engineering firm, famous for designing the 1866 Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati and the 1883 Brooklyn Bridge. At the time of construction, it ranked as the third-longe...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/w/4/ojuela-wp/9sw4-ojuela-the-bridge-that-outlived-its-purpose.mp3 0:06 4 full Ojuela: A Mineral Collector's Shrine https://qualla.com/ojuela/ Photo credit BlatZzz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ojuela may be dead as a town, but among mineral collectors it remains very much alive. The mine has yielded 117 distinct mineral species, making it one of the most important collecting localities in the Americas. Its adamite specimens -- vivid green, yellow, and purple crystals -...

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