There is no road, not even a primitive one, across the Darién. The "Gap" interrupts the Pan-American Highway, which breaks at Yaviza, Panama, and resumes at Turbo, Colombia, roughly 106 km (66 mi) away.

2023年8月23日 · It’s 66 roadless miles of dense, mountainous jungle and swamp filled with armed guerillas, drug traffickers, and some of the world’s most deadly creatures covering the border of Panama and...

The Darien Gap is infamously difficult to traverse, but, as the only overland route connecting North and South America, it has become a crucial path for migrants traveling northward to the United States and Canada in the 21st century.

2024年6月22日 · The Darién Gap is a region of mountains, swamps, and dense jungle, making it incredibly hostile for road infrastructure. The challenging landscape, coupled with the presence of paramilitary forces, gangs, and drug traffickers, has deterred any attempts to construct a road.

2014年8月14日 · Stretching from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina, the 48,000km-long Pan-American Highway holds the record for the world's longest motorable road. But there is a gap - an expanse of wild...

2024年6月17日 · There are several reasons why there is no road through the Darién Gap. First, the Darién Gap is a challenging and hostile environment, with mountains, swamps, and dense jungle. This terrain makes it difficult and expensive to construct and maintain a road.

2022年11月13日 · “For many Panamanian voters, the Darién Gap represents a popular border fence” against an influx of undocumented Colombians. Further north, the US now saw the highway as artery along which leftist guerrillas, narcotics, and migrants could travel.

The Darien Gap is the only break in the 95 kilometers (60 miles) Pan American Highway (on the 10 longest roads in the world) without a road. In fact, this break makes it nearly impossible to cross Central America by land.

2023年3月12日 · The story of the Pan-American highway and its famed Darien Gap is the ultimate legacy of humanity’s attempts to conquer nature and establish political strength aided by a flamboyant geographic imagination.

2024年12月3日 · This region, or gap, was called the Darien Gap. Demand for this highway became greater when WWII came around, with its completion allowing transportation of aid. But all attempts to finish this road were always put to a stop due to this untouchable gap (Miller 2014).