La Encrucijada, or La Encrucijada de Turmero, is a strategic road junction near

Turmero Turmero is a city in the States of Venezuela, state of Aragua (state), Aragua in northern Venezuela. It is the capital of Santiago Mariño Municipality. The city was officially established on 27 November 1620 with the founding of a church, ''Igle ...

, Venezuela. The locality is also planned to be the site of a

rail junction A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge. The physical connection between the tracks of the two routes (assuming they are of the same gauge) is provided by Railroad switch, tur ...

Road

At this point, about 72 km south-west of

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

, the ''Autopista Regional del Centro'' (Central Regional Highway) intersects with other major highways.

Rail

Turmero had a station on the Great Venezuela Railway between Caracas and Valencia. This line opened in the 1890s and closed in the 1960s. With the revival of rail transport in Venezuela, La Encrucijada is planned to be the site of an important rail junction. Some construction has taken place on a mainly east-west route to the Caribbean (which roughly follows the routes of defunct 19th-century railway lines). It is planned to link this route to others into the interior of Venezuela. However, construction appears to have come to a halt. In 2016 the ''

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'' reported that investments in the Venezuelan rail system had become risky.

References

{{reflist Populated places in Aragua Road interchanges Road transport in Venezuela Highways in Venezuela