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Carretera Marginal de la Selva ("Jungle Border Highway") is an important South American route originally planned in 1963 to join the Amazon regions of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
Date: 1 January 2010: Source: Own work based on: Colombia Transportation.jpg and Colombia Transportation 2008, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection and Mapa de las carreteras colombianas en 2007, UNHCR
Highway map (in Spanish) from the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad; Brazil. Route logs (in Portuguese) of the federal system from the Ministério dos Transportes Chile. Highway maps (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Obras Públicas Colombia. A number of useful documents are linked at Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto:Carreteras de Colombia
La Línea (English: The Line) is a highway tunnel between the cities of Calarcá, Quindío and Cajamarca, Tolima in Colombia.It crosses beneath the locally famous "Alto de La Línea" in the Cordillera Central or central range of the Andes mountains, easing traffic on one of Colombia's main east-west road connections (the National Route 40) which links Bogotá with Cali and the Pacific port of ...
The Highway Police (Spanish: Policía de Carreteras) is the main body enforcing road regulations in Colombia to control land transportation and traffic, prevention of accidentality and crimes, similar to a highway patrol but with a nationwide area of operations.
4 November – top FARC leader Guillermo León Sáenz aka Alfonso Cano is killed by the Colombian army. [4]14 November – Miss Colombia 2011. 26 November – FARC reportedly kill four members of the Colombian Security Forces that were held captive for more than a decade.
A series of floods in Colombia began in late April 2011, coinciding with the country's rainy season. Torrential rains triggered extensive flooding and landslides that killed at least 187 people and 1.2 million people affected by the devastating flood. [5]
SH 255 begins at the Laredo–Colombia Solidarity International Bridge on the Mexico–United States border. [3] From the Laredo Colombia Solidarity Port of Entry, SH 255 heads northeast as a four-lane divided highway and crosses FM 1472 (Mines Road). It then merges down to a two-lane road just west of the former toll barrier.