Pan-American Highway System Overview
The Northern Pan-American Highway travels through 9 countries:
- Canada
- United States
- Mexico
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Costa Rica
- Panama
The Southern Pan-American Highway travels through 9 countries:
- Suriname
- Guyana
- Brazil
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Chile
- Argentina
Important spurs also lead into Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay:
The Pan-American Highway goes north out of Mexico into the United States at Laredo, Texas. From there, no official route exists between there and Prudhoe Bay. Stretches of road lay claim to the Pan-American Highway in Canada and the United States. Interstate 35 is named Pan American Expressway through San Antonio, Texas. The Pan American Highway Association claims U.S. Route 81 from McPherson, Kansas to Watertown, South Dakota. The Alaska Highway through Alaska, the Yukon and northern British Columbia also claims to be part of the Pan-American Highway, as well as the Dalton Highway in Alaska, which is the only year-round road in North America to reach the Arctic Ocean (the ice road from Inuvik also reaches the Arctic Ocean).
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