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Pan-American Highway

States
3
Stops
6 of 82 mapped
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The route · stop by stop
  1. 1
    Prudhoe Bay
    Arctic Coast starting point · start of Dalton Highway
  3. 3
    Dawson Creek, British Columbia
    southern terminus of Alaska Highway
  4. 4
    Prince George, British Columbia
    junction point on route south through BC
  5. 5
    Cache Creek, British Columbia
    route splits toward Vancouver or continues south
  6. 6
    Vancouver, British Columbia
    reachable via Trans-Canada Hwy 1 or BC-99
  12. 12
    San Ysidro, California
    US/Mexico border crossing point
  13. 13
    Tijuana
    Baja California entry point
  14. 14
    Nogales, Sonora
    CANAMEX Corridor border crossing
  15. 15
    Hermosillo
    along Mexican Federal Highway 15
  16. 16
    Mazatlan
    west coast Mexico route town
  17. 17
    Guadalajara
    major city on the west-coast branch
  18. 18
    Mexico City
    hub where Interamerican Highway splits into branches
  19. 19
    Oaxaca City
    on the officially designated Pan-American route south
  20. 20
    Tuxtla Gutierrez
    on route toward Guatemalan border
  21. 21
    San Cristobal de las Casas
    stop before Comitan
  22. 22
    Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Chiapas
    Guatemala border crossing (La Mesilla)
  23. 23
    Huehuetenango
    largest city in its department · first major stop entering Guatemala from Mexico
  24. 24
    Cuatro Caminos
    busy highway intersection near Quetzaltenango
  25. 25
    Los Encuentros
    junction toward Chichicastenango and Panajachel
  26. 26
    Chimaltenango
    junction town for road to Antigua Guatemala
  27. 27
    Guatemala City
    national capital · all highways measured from Km 0 at the National Palace
  28. 28
    Cuilapa
  29. 29
    Jutiapa
    near El Salvador border
  30. 30
    Santa Ana, El Salvador
    major agriculture and coffee-producing city
  31. 31
    San Salvador
    national capital · near San Salvador volcano
  32. 32
    San Vicente
  33. 33
    San Miguel, El Salvador
    third-largest city · agricultural center of eastern El Salvador
  34. 34
    El Amatillo
    Honduras border crossing
  35. 35
    Choluteca
  36. 36
    San Marcos de Colon
    near Nicaragua border
  37. 37
    Esteli
  38. 38
    Managua
    capital and principal city of Nicaragua
  39. 39
    Rivas
    near Costa Rica border
  40. 40
    Penas Blancas
    Costa Rica border crossing point
  41. 41
    Liberia, Costa Rica
  42. 42
    San Jose, Costa Rica
    capital city · route splits into northern and southern sections here
  43. 43
    Cartago
  44. 44
    Paso Canoas
    Panama border crossing
  45. 45
    David, Panama
    major transport hub for Pacific west region · first major city from Costa Rican border
  46. 46
    Santiago de Veraguas
  47. 47
    Panama City
    capital of Panama · travelers ship vehicles from here to South America
  48. 48
    Chepo
  49. 49
    Yaviza
    road ends at the Darien Gap here
  50. 50
    Darien Gap
    roadless gap between Panama and Colombia · crossed by ferry or ship, not by road
  51. 51
    Turbo, Colombia
    official South American start of the highway · reached by sea from Panama
  52. 52
    Cartagena, Colombia
    principal port where travelers ship vehicles from Panama
  53. 53
    Medellin, Colombia
    route splits here toward Turbo or Cartagena
  54. 54
    Tulcan
    Ecuador border crossing from Colombia
  55. 55
    Ibarra
  56. 56
    Quito
    Ecuadorian capital on the Andean highland route
  57. 57
    Ambato
  58. 58
    Riobamba
  59. 59
    Cuenca
  60. 60
    Loja
    near Peru border
  61. 61
    La Macara
    Peru border crossing
  62. 62
    Chiclayo
  63. 63
    Trujillo
  64. 64
    Chimbote
  65. 65
    Huacho
  66. 66
    Lima
    Peruvian capital · KM-0 reference point where northern and southern route sections meet
  67. 67
    Arequipa
    Peru's second most important city · surrounded by three volcanoes
  68. 68
    Nazca
    famous for the Nazca Lines UNESCO site
  69. 69
    Tacna
    last Peruvian city before Chile border
  70. 70
    Arica, Chile
    nearest Chilean city to Peru border
  71. 71
    Iquique
  72. 72
    Antofagasta
  73. 73
    Copiapo
  74. 74
    Santiago, Chile
    major junction city on Ruta 5
  75. 75
    Los Andes, Chile
    route toward Christ Redeemer Tunnel begins near here
  76. 76
    Christ Redeemer Tunnel
    mountain tunnel crossing into Argentina
  77. 77
    Mendoza, Argentina
    on the Cuyo region route
  78. 78
    San Luis, Argentina
  79. 79
    Buenos Aires
    capital and largest city of Argentina · official endpoint of the Pan-American Highway
  80. 80
    Rio Gallegos
    Patagonia route point toward Tierra del Fuego
  81. 81
    San Sebastian, Tierra del Fuego
    Chile/Argentina Tierra del Fuego border crossing point
  82. 82
    Ushuaia
    southernmost tip of South America · unofficial southern end of the route
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Route structure sourced from the Wikivoyage guide (CC BY-SA 4.0). Roads, distances, and drive times computed by the Byway routing engine.