Pan-American Highway
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he Pan-American Highway (see below for its name in all languages) is a network of roads nearly 48,000 kilometres (29,800 miles) in total length. Except for an 87 kilometre (54 mi) rainforest gap, the road links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to The Guinness Book of World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest "motorable road".
The Pan-American Highway travels through the following 15 countries:
* Canada (unofficially) * United States (unofficially) * Mexico * Guatemala * El Salvador * Honduras * Nicaragua * Costa Rica * Panama * Colombia * Ecuador * Peru * Chile * Argentina
Important spurs also lead into Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela