Pan-American Highway

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