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The Yungas Road, popularly known as The Death Road, is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) long cycle route linking the city of La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Bolivian government to connect the capital city of La Paz with the Amazon Rainforest in the north part of the country.
After another 20 km, the road meets with Route 25. Continuing on, the road meets the older Yungas Road, [1] the world's deadliest road. [2] It continues on a new, safer but still windy road. Bypassing Cororico, the road meets Route 40, which runs through Cororico and meets Yungas Road, and follows the Cororico River to Caranavi, where it meets ...
World's Most Dangerous Roads is a British TV series in which two celebrities are filmed as they journey by 4×4 vehicle along roads considered among the world's most dangerous. The show was initially broadcast on BBC Two from 2011 to 2013, [1] and narrated by actor Adrian Dunbar. [1]
In Bolivia's highland city of El Alto, the row of colorful corrugated metal roofs - blues, oranges, reds and greens - for a moment distracts from the terrifying sight below: a precipitous drop ...
STORY: This perilous route through the Bolivian Andes is marked by narrow lanes, sharp turns and deadly cliffs, earning it the name "Death Road."But after Bolivia opened an alternate route ...
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, ...
Overall, CMT found that the most dangerous city for driving is the popular beach spot for New York City-dwellers, the Hamptons, followed by Miami, Nashville, Charleston and Atlanta. If you're ...
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.