Route 3 is a National Road in
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
. It connects La Paz to Trinidad via Cororico, Caranavi, Yucumo, and San Ignacio de Moxos.
Route description
Route 3 has a length of 610 km
kilometers and runs in an east-west direction. It starts in the La Paz suburb of El Alto at a junction with Route 1. Continuing northeast on the Route 1 roadbed, the road runs around a hairpin turn and runs toward Central La Paz.
At the La Paz bus terminal, Route 3 turns off of Avenida Ismael Montes onto a one way street pair, and follows a windy road out of the city. About 25 km outside the city, the road intersects with Route 41, the city beltway. After another 20 km, the road meets with Route 25. Continuing on, the road meets the older
Yungas Road
The Yungas Road, popularly known as the Death Road, is a long cycle route linking the city of La Paz, Bolivia, La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Politics of Bolivia, Bolivian government to connect ...
,
the world's deadliest road.
It continues on a new, safer but still windy road. Bypassing Cororico, the road meets Route 40, which runs through Cororico and meets Yungas Road, and follows the Cororico River to Caranavi, where it meets Route 26. Leaving on the route of the Cororico River, the road runs over a mountain pass and a bridge over the Rio Beni. Continuing into Beni Department, Route 3 continues to the town of Yucumo, where it meets Route 8, which runs north to the Brazilian border at Acre. The road continues to Route 24, an uncompleted road to connect it with Cochabamba,
in the town of San Ignacio de Moxos. The road then runs about 100 km, ending at Route 9 in downtown Trinidad.
References
Roads in Bolivia
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