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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 region around Coroico has remained a traditional coca growing area and is the smallest of three areas of coca production in Bolivia. 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".
The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
But from many tourists’ and visitors’ accounts, we know about 300 species of birds are throughout the Death Road.”They've snapped images of badgers, musk deer, and jaguars.It's a testament ...
The women, ranging from age 42 to 50, have scaled five of the country's peaks after deciding to leave a life of cooking and porting to become mountaineers. Eleven Aymara indigenous women scale ...
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, ...
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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 ...