Darien gap

In this week's Maphead, Ken Jennings explores how a small stretch of jungle puts the dream of a fully connected highway from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego frustratingly out of reach.

This is a foot bridge that begins the journey into the Darien jungle. The bridge is located in Yaviza where the Pan American Highway is stopped for 99 miles of little explored Panama jungle known as the Darien Gap. The highway picks up again in Colombia. thepanamaportal.com

Darién Gap - Wikipedia

Poveglia Island is an abandoned island located off the coast of Northern Italy. It is off limits for public access. It was a site of wars, dumping grounds for plague victims, used as an armory for weapons, had a mental asylum. Some estimates suggest that 100,000 people died on the island over the centuries.

The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.

Why settle for an ordinary American road trip when you can drive across all of the Americas? Follow our journey as we drive the Pan American Highway along with plenty of side roads and other adventures.

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Two crises are converging at the perilous land bridge known as the Darién Gap: the economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America, and the bitter fight over immigration policy in Washington.

(This July 22 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of 'Embera community' in paragraph 43)