National Route 6 (officially, ''Ruta Nacional Número 6 "Dr. Juan León Mallorquín"'', better known as ''Ruta Seis'') is one of the national
highways
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of
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 ...
. With a length of 247 km it mainly connects the second and third most populated cities in Paraguay,
Ciudad del Este
Ciudad del Este (, Spanish for Eastern City; often shortened as CDE) is the second-largest city in Paraguay and capital of the Alto Paraná Department, situated on the Paraná River. It is located 327 km east of Asunción, the capital, and i ...
and
Encarnación respectively. It crosses the
departments
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* 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, ...
of
Alto Parana and
Itapua.
Distances and important cities
The following table shows the distances traversed by National Route 6 in each different department, and important cities that it passes by (or near).
{{National Roads in Paraguay
6
Alto Paraná Department
Itapúa Department