National Route 8 (officially, ''Ruta Nacional Número 8 "Dr. Blas Garay"'', simply known as ''Ruta Ocho'') is a
highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...
in
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...
, which runs from
Bella Vista Norte
Bella Vista is a border List of cities and towns in Paraguay, town in northeast of Paraguay, bordering the Brazilian town of Bela Vista, Mato Grosso do Sul. Both towns are divided by the Apa River, only connected by a borderbridge. It is a small ...
to
Coronel Bogado. It mainly connects the north and the south regions of
Eastern Paraguay. It crosses seven
departments
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
* Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
and has a total length of .
Distances, cities and towns
The following table shows the distances traversed by National Route 8 in each different department, showing cities and towns that it passes by (or near).
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