The Pan-American Highway (see below for its name in all languages) is a network of roads nearly 48,000 km (29,800 miles) in total length. Except for an 87 km rainforest gap, the road links the mainland nations of the Americas in a...
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The Pan-American Highway (see below for its name in all languages) is a network of roads nearly 48,000 km (29,800 miles) in total length. Except for an 87 km rainforest gap, the road links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system. The Pan-American Highway system is mostly complete and extends from Fairbanks, Alaska in North America to Quellón, Chile in South America, though no route is officially defined in Canada and the United States. The Pan-American Highway passes through many diverse climates and ecological types, from dense jungles to cold mountain passes. Since the highway passes through many countries, it is far from uniform. Some stretches of the highway are passable only during the dry season, and in many regions driving is occasionally hazardous. Famous sections of the Pan-American Highway include the Alaska Highway and the Inter-American Highway, the latter being the section between the United States and the Panama Canal. This part is quite popular among US tourists driving into Mexico. Jake Silverstein, writing in 2006, described the Pan-American Highway as "a system so vast, so incomplete, and so incomprehensible it is not so much a road as it is the idea of Pan-Americanism itself…" (Silverstein, p. 71)
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