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'''''La Joroba''''' es el nombre que los pilotos Aliados dieron durante la [[Segunda Guerra Mundial]] a la zona oriental del [[Himalaya]] sobre la cual volaron entre [[India]] y [[China]] para reabastecer a los [[Tigres Voladores]] y al [[Segunda Guerra
The pilots started flying The Hump en Abril de 1942, cuando los Japoneses tomaron la [[Carretera de Birmania]], y siguieron hasta 1945, cuando se abrió la [Carretera Ledo]].
The area is cut up by huge parallel [[gorge]]s of the upper parts of some of the big rivers of Sudeste Asiático: [[Mekong]], [[Ayeyarwady River|Irrawaddy]], [[Salween]], etc. One measure of the jaggedness of the terrain is the name of one of the mountains, which translates into English as "Elephant Head Gouge Mountain", because when elephants use a game trail on its side, at one place they have to turn such a sharp corner that their tusks scrape grooves into the rock. One local relic of this air traffic is native aluminium ware made in the area from wartime crash debris.
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==="La Joroba"===
Aviation equipment was ferried to China across the Himalayas, along the [[airbridge (logistics)|air bridge]] which received the name the "Joroba de Camello" (because the relief of the route was like the side view silueta de un camello).
Entre [[India]], [[Birmania]], y [[China]] there began to operate an puente aéreo sin precedentes. In the west, the Hump began in India from a series of airfields strung out along the Assam section of the [[Northeast Indian Railways during World War II|north east Indian railways]],<ref>William Slim. ''Defeat into Victory'', Chapter IX: The Foundations</ref> and passed over the mountains of [[Yongnan]] and a series of spines to [[Sichuan]] Province. After the opening of the air route, it became for the Chinese una auténtica "carretera de la vida." The quantity of cargo transported reached 7000 toneladas al mes. According to the reckoning of the Chinese, from May 1942 to September 1945, a total of 650,000 tons were transported, of which Chinese pilots accounted for 75,000 tons (about 12%). Also, along the air bridge 33,400 people were transported in both directions. The summary reached 1.5 million flight hours.
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