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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".
Continuing into Beni Department, Route 3 continues to the town of Yucumo, where it meets Route 8, which runs north to the Brazilian border at Acre. The road continues to Route 24, an uncompleted road to connect it with Cochabamba, [1] in the town of San Ignacio de Moxos. The road then runs about 100 km, ending at Route 9 in downtown Trinidad.
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 ...
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Death Road may refer to: Yungas Road, a notoriously treacherous route in Bolivia; Kabul–Behsud Highway, ...
The Afro Bolivian community is concentrated here. Its name derives from the one applied for the same mountain level by those who study the economic system of the prehispanic Andes. [citation needed] The Yungas also contains one of the most deadly roads in the world, called the "camino de la muerte," or Highway of Death.
It begins in the Bolivian lowlands on the border with Brazil and runs roughly parallel to the Beni River along the Moxos plains in the Beni savannah to the eastern edge of the Bolivian forelands. The northernmost section of Route 8, from Guayaramerin to Riberalta is paved, as is the southernmost section, from Yucumo to Rurrenabaque .