The Autovía A-92 is a highway in

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. It is a major east–west route running south of the

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and is known as the Carretera Sevilla a Granada and Autovía de Andalucía. It starts in

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heading parallel to the Rio Guadaira to

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, where it is crossed by the Autovía A-45 from

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to Córdoba. It then crosses the Sierra Gorda to Loja and Vega de Granada before reaching

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. Here the road is crossed by the Autovía A-44 from the coast and Motril to Jaén. The A-92 then passes over the Puerto de la Mora de Huétor (1,390 m) to

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. At Guadix the road branches in two; the south passing La Calahorra Castle and along the Rio Nacimiento to Tabernas and

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. The northern branch heads along the Hoya de Guadix and the

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before joining the

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at junction 578 km, 17 km south of Lorca. In Murcia the road is numbered Autovía A-91. Over the past many years the road has experienced several problems. In 1991 before the road had opened, a mudslide caused a portion to collapse in Venta del Molinillo,

. Again in 1996, a section collapsed near Loja, Granada. In 2010, two separate portions of the road, in Jaén and Granada

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, collapsed following weeks of heavy rainfall. Until 2010, 90 million

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had been spent on repairs.Another stretch collapses rainsoaked
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