The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches approximately 30,000 kilometers (about 19,000 miles) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in the northernmost part of North America to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America. It is recognized as the longest road in the world and serves as a significant overland route ...

Apr 5, 2016 · At its fullest extent the Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, a distance of around 48,000 kilometres (30,000 miles). According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world’s longest “motorable road” .

Jan 9, 2025 · Pan-American Highway is network of highways connecting North America and South America. The whole system extends from Alaska and Canada to Chile, Brazil, and the southern tip of Argentina.

Jul 18, 2024 · Here’s everything you need to know about the Pan-American Highway, the world’s longest road.

May 14, 2024 · The Pan-American Highway is not a single, uninterrupted road but a network of roads that together form the longest driveable route in the world. It starts in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and ends in Ushuaia, Argentina, passing through a total of 14 countries.

The Pan-American Highway forms part of a network of highways known as the Pan American Highway System stretching from the extreme north to the extreme south of the Americas. It traverses 15 nations and has important spurs into five additional nations.

The Pan-American Highway is well defined through Central America and runs continuously from the Mexican border at La Mesilla, Guatemala to Yaviza, Panama in the Darien Gap as a singular route. In most countries it is numbered as "CA-1" or "Hwy 1" which passes through the major cities in the heavily populated areas of the Central American isthmus.

May 28, 2024 · The Pan-American Highway: A Continent-Spanning Marvel and the Enduring Enigma of the Darién Gap. From the frozen tundras of Alaska to the windswept landscapes of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America, the Pan-American Highway is a monumental testament to human ingenuity and the indomitable spirit of connectivity. This vast ...

The Pan American Highway, a successor project to the unfinished Pan American Railway, originated as an interwar initiative among member nations in the Pan American Union and is generally considered to comprise the longest road in the world.

Today the dream has nearly been realized with the construction of the Pan American Highway, a network of highways connecting the capitals and principal cities of South and Central America with highways of the continental United States, including Alaska, and Canada.