The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches about 30,000 kilometers from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States, in the northernmost part of North America, to Ushuaia, Argentina, at
Interstate 35 in the U.S. state of Iowa. I-35 is a de facto branch of the Pan-American Highway.
Interstate 25 in the U.S. state of New Mexico. I-25 is part of the other de facto branch, and is signed "Pan-American Freeway" in Albuquerque.
Pan-American Highway in Chimaltenango (Guatemala), 2015.
Carretera Panamericana westbound at Nejapa. Note "CA-1 A", signage for alternative CA-1, north bypass of San Salvador.
The Darién Gap is a remote, roadless, and dangerous area of rainforest on the international border between Colombia and Panama. Stretching across southern Panama's Darién Province and the northern por
Pan-American Highway
…Highway, which officially begins at the Mexico–United States border in Nuevo Laredo and runs south. The Pan-American Highway is interrupted at the Darién Gap, a roadless, dense rainforest area between Panama and Colombia. No road traverses the Gap, and no car ferries have operated in the area for decades…
A ceiba tree in the Darién Gap
Ed Culberson's "Amigo" (a BMW R80G/S motorcycle) was the first motor vehicle to fully navigate the Pan-American Highway by land.
The first Mexican by-foot crossers take a rest by the "Lost Corvair", abandoned in 1961 by a caravan from Chicago.
Venezuelan migrants being processed in Ecuador in preparation to make the long journey north to New York City, including crossing the Darién Gap