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The North Yungas Road (also known as Grove's Road, Coroico Road, ', Death Road or Road of fate) is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the "world's most dangerous road". In 2006 one estimate stated that 200 to 300 travellers were killed yearly along the road.〔 The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have fallen. The South Yungas Road connects La Paz to Chulumani, east of La Paz, and is considered to be nearly as dangerous as the North Road. ==Route description== This is one of the few routes that connects the Yungas region of northern Bolivia to the capital city. Upon leaving La Paz, the road first ascends to around at La Cumbre Pass, before descending to at the town of Coroico, transiting quickly from cool Altiplano terrain to rainforest as it winds through very steep hillsides and atop cliffs. The largely single-lane road has no guard rails and cliffs of up to . Most of the road is the width of a single vehicle, about . During the rainy season from November to March, rain and fog can severely hamper visibility, and water runoff can turn the road into a muddy track, affecting traction. In the summer, rockfalls are common and vehicle dust limits visibility as well. One of the local road rules specifies that the downhill driver never has the right of way and must move to the outer edge of the road. This forces the faster downhill vehicle to stop so that passing can be negotiated safely. Unlike the rest of Bolivia, vehicles are required to drive on the left side of the road, to give the driver a better view of the vehicle's outside wheel and making passing safer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yungas Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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