Route 6 is a National Road in the South American Andean state of

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 ...

Route description

Route 6 has a length of 976 kilometers and crosses almost the entire width of the country in a southeast–northwest direction. It begins in the Bolivian lowlands on the border to

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and leads along almost the entire eastern Andean chain of the

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to the eastern edge of the

Altiplano The Altiplano (Spanish language, Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechuan languages, Quechua and Aymara language, Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla people, Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extens ...

near

Oruro Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by populat ...

. The road crosses the

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of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca,

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Potosí Department, Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the list of highest cities in the world, highest cities in the wo ...

and

, where it ends at

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. The entire route from Oruro to Padilla is or will be paved, the area to Monteagudo is still unpaved gravel or dirt track, from Monteagudo to Boyuibe the road is paved, from Boyuibe to the Paraguayan border it is in turn unpaved.

History

Route 6 is with Decree 25.134 of 21 August 1998 was declared part of the Bolivian trunk road network "Red Vial Fundamental" and at that time only included the 643 km section east of Sucre.lexivox.or
Decreto Supremo N° 25134, 21 de agosto de 1998
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References

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