Darien Gap
Panama · Americas
About Darien Gap
The Darién Gap (Spanish: Región del Darién or Tapón del Darién) is a break in the Pan-American Highway consisting of a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest within Panama's Darién Province in Central America and the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department in South America.
Darien Gap travel guide
Understand
The gap measures just over 160 km (100 mi) long and about 50 km (30 mi) wide. Road building through this area is expensive, and the environmental cost is high. Political consensus in favor of road construction has not emerged. Consequently there is no road connection through the Darién Gap connecting North America with South America and it is the missing link of the Pan-American Highway. Since this area is the only piece of land connecting both continents, it is dominated by drug cartels. The overland crossings are considered to be hard and dangerous.
Go next
From Turbo's central bus station you can find buses to
Medellin Cartagena - 5 hours to Montería and from there 5 hours more to Cartagena
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.