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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.
Nestled high among the hills of La Paz, Bolivia, it is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous roads in the world. The threat of fog, landslides, frequent steep cliffs and hairpin turns have ...
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 ...
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, ...
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 ...
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The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [3] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males. [6]
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