The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads roughly 30,000 kilometres long, stretching from Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina. Construction began following 1930s Pan-American conference agreements; the network remains broken only by the Darien Gap, a roughly 100-kilometre stretch of roadless rainforest and swamp between Panama and Colombia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Established Year SignificanceThe world's longest motorable road network, broken only by the roughly 100-kilometre roadless Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia. 1 Route TypeContinental highway network 1 TerminiPrudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina (with the Darien Gap unfinished) 1 Length (km)Commonly cited around 30,000 kilometres; the figure varies depending on which national branches and alternate routings are counted. Operational StatusActive (with the Darien Gap unfinished) 1 Operational Status
Operational Status (category) Operational Status (category)Under Construction / Planned 1 Connections
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Pan-American Highway
WikipediaLead section, sentence listing the 14 connected countries
The highway connects 14 countries: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
- In Category: Routes and Services
In Group: International and Frontier Highways, Lead sentence
The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches about 30,000 kilometers (19,000 mi) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States, in the northernmost part of North America, to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America.
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