One giveaway that you’re a geography nerd: You keep obsessing about the Darien Gap. What is it about that 60-mile stretch between Yaviza, Panama, and Turbo, Colombia, that has resisted any ...

The Pan-American Highway, which connects North and South America, has been called the longest road network in the world.It’s a system of roads that stretches from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in the ...

Pan-American Highway from above. Rommel Gonzalez/Getty Images. From north to south, the route totals around 19,000 miles, going from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina.

Every road has a story to tell. From border-crossing adventures to desert marathons, there's always something exciting happening on highways around the globe. With summer getaways just around the ...

Encompassing some of the world’s most spectacular landscapes and almost 30,000 miles of open road across North, Central and South America, the legendary Pan-American Highway is the ultimate road trip.

A Pan American Congress on Highways was held at Rio de Janeiro in August 1929 and an Inter-American Highway Congress at Panama City in October of the same year. The latter met to consider means for ...

The “Action for the Defense of Life, Territory, Democracy, and Peace,” as they call the protest, has now lasted over three weeks, with 20,000 people blocking the Pan-American Highway, mostly ...

The latest attack on the Panamerica highway is the second this month. The road was also closed on December 4 after a similar attack, also by alleged FARC guerrillas. MORE: Pan-American highway closed ...