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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".
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 ...
Between 1999 and 2003 hundreds of Bolivians died trying to navigate it.The alternate route opened in 2007, and the original road is now mostly an attraction for cyclists.The WCS set up 35 cameras ...
Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, ...
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The Bolivian National Road network (Spanish: Rutas Nacionales) comprises 16,029 km (as of 2006) of roadway across all of Bolivia. The National Road network was established with the Decreto Supremo 25.134 of 21 August 1998, with a length of 10,401 kilometres, consisting of 17 national roads. [1] Today, there are 45 national roads in total.
Map of Bolivia. The square indicates the area of Che Guevara's guerrilla actions in 1966–1967. His actions and those of his guerrilla group in 1966 and 1967 were centred on a farm acquired on the River Ñancahuazú, a seasonal mountain river, flowing directly into the Rio Grande.