The Pan-American Highway: One Road, Two Continents

The through route from Prudhoe Bay to southern Chile is drivable except for about 100 km of the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, which has no road at all.

Travelers ship their vehicles around it.

The highway climbs over 4,800 m passes in Peru, crosses the Atacama, and served as the spine of inter American trade and tourism since the 1930s..