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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.
The Yungas also contains one of the most deadly roads in the world, called the "camino de la muerte," or Highway of Death. Due to the mountainous terrain an entrepreneurial coca harvester created a network of zip lines that permit rapid travel from peak to peak by farmers, referred to locally as flying men or bird men, along with their harvests ...
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, a highway in Afghanistan noted for its frequency of Taliban- ...
The threat of fog, landslides, frequent steep cliffs and hairpin turns have appropriately earned this switchback the grim nickname "Death Road." Officially known as North Yungas Road, this 43-mile ...
We're taking a look at five of the most terrifying roads in the world to drive along.
New highway: On a part of the road from La Paz to Coroico a new highway has been opened at the end of 2006, and the old Yungas Road is now used mainly for bikers. This Yungas Road is also called the "death road".
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The Bolivian Yungas is the center of the Afro-Bolivian community. The Yungas Road , known for being dangerous, connects La Paz to the Bolivian Yungas. Protected areas