Pan-American Highway

American  

noun

1. a road system proposed in the 1920s linking nations of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Alaska to Santiago, Chile, with some gaps remaining in Panama and Colombia. The section between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and Panama City is known as the Inter-American Highway Total length about 16,000 miles (25,744 km).

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Example Sentences

Videos shared from the scene showed damaged vehicles and debris strewn across the Pan-American Highway in the southern Cauca region.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Stretching from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina, the 48,000km-long Pan-American Highway holds the record for the world's longest road navigable by motor vehicle.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Parts are so inaccessible that when engineers built the Pan-American Highway in the 1930s, linking Alaska to Argentina, only one section was left unfinished.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2021

The Pan-American Highway ends here, only to resurface in Yaviza, on the Panamanian side of the Darien.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2021

Here the Pan-American Highway had, as it turned out, sliced through some of the oldest public architecture anywhere on earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann