Pan-American Highway

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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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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

The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning on a "rugged" stretch of the Pan-American Highway that connects Peru with Chile in the country's southern region of Arequipa.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

The Indigenous Ngobe-Bugle who live there have blocked important stretches of the Pan-American Highway, holding up trucks trying to get produce to the capital.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

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

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