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	americas.org - Banana Workers Block Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Some 200 workers from four independent banana plantations shut down the PanAmerican highway for nine hours on September 20 in the Panamanian Province of Chiriquí to demand payment of back wages and benefits.
		Anti-riot police tried to disperse the protesters with tear gas, but the wind blew the gas back at the police and at the TV cameras, and they were forced to retreat.
		The police assault broke up the highway blockade, but negotiations continued in the city of David, where several hours later an agreement was reached between the workers and the company owners.
	www.americas.org /item_7196 (106 words)

	Pan-American Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The notable stretch that keeps the highway from being completely connected is a section of land between the Panama Canal in Panama and the Colombian border called the Darién Gap, which is a 54 mile (87 km) stretch of rainforest.
		A continuation of the Pan-American Highway to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro uses a ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia in Uruguay and Uruguay Highway 1 to Montevideo.
		The Pan-American highway is the subject of a recent (as of 2006) conceptual art piece, The School of Panamerican Unrest, where Mexican-born artist Pablo Helguera is attempting to drive a portable schoolhouse for the length of the entire route.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panamerican_Highway (1468 words)

	Carrera Panamericana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Carrera Panamericana was (and is again) a sports car racing event on open roads in Mexico, similar to the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio in Italy.
		After the Mexican section of the Panamerican Highway was completed in 1950, a multi-stage race across the country was established to celebrate this feat.
		In 1952, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL of Karl Kling/Hans Klenk was hit by a vulture in the windscreen, injuring the codriver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrera_Panamericana (218 words)

	www.COSTARICAWEEKLY.com - COSTA RICA National Parks information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 70,000 hectares of Guanacaste National Park extend from Santa Rosa's border with the PanAmerican Highway northeastward to the peaks of Orosi and Cacao Volcanoes and across the Continental Divide onto the Caribbean slopes of these two volcanoes.
		From the intersection on the PanAmerican Highway at Liberia, drive west towards the Pacific coast.
		Also, caution should be used if stopping anywhere along the highway other than at the ranger stations as, unfortunately, there have been numerous cases during the past few years of tourists being robbed at gunpoint while attempting to use trails where there is no park service vigilance.
	costaricaweekly.com /nationalparks.html (13754 words)

	Highway 101, British Columbia, Canada
		The world's longest highway, the Pan-American (also named Highway 101 in parts of the United States and Canada), stretches 9,312 miles (15020 km) from Castro on Chile's south coast to Lund on BC's Sunshine Coast.
		Campsites along or near Highway 101 are plentiful, and you won't have any difficulty in finding a place to pitch your tent or park your RV, except in July and August and on long weekends from May to September.
		Highway 101 makes the second leg of this journey 37 miles (59 km) north to Lund.
	www.vancouverisland.com /Regions/towns/index.asp?townID=3966 (695 words)

	Narco News Chiapas Series: Part V
		The road winds past Frontera Comalapa and soon the Panamerican Highway begins in Cuidad Cuauhtémoc; the third of the entry points from Guatemala into this region.
		Not a "highway" in the sense that most gringos understand one, the Panamerican -- Route 190 -- is a narrow, at times poorly paved, road that winds around mountains, past Comitán toward San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
		This is all very far -- everything in the jungle and its mountain canyons is hours from anywhere -- from the Panamerican highway, which winds up past Comitán (the city from which sprang Chiapas Governor Roberto Albores Guillen).
	www.narconews.com /Issue24/chiapaspart5.html (1603 words)

	Drive to Costa Rica \| Drive to Mexico \| Drive to Central America \| Panamerica Highway - Guatemala
		You may either stay in San Carlos or Guaymas San Carlos is located about 5k off the main highway before you reach Guaymas The road splits about 10k outside of Guaymas, it is well-marked with a large sign pointing the way to San Carlos.
		I asked one of the highway police which was the shorter route at the fork in the road and the officer said that the coastal route was shorter.
		Yet if you turned off the main highway and followed the Pinotepa N. sign you have nothing to fear except for the fact that the roads are wicked for several hours after Acapulco, but after Pinotepa they improve greatly.
	www.drivemeloco.com /mex.htm (5331 words)

	Rumbos Online: The Wild Coast
		Today there were mysterious packages and envelopes to be dropped off, vital keys to be left somewhere, a dog to cuddled, someone’s granny to be kissed goodbye, and a construction foreman needing funds for cement.
		Beyond Ocucaje, as the Panamerican peeled away south-eastward, we took a turn-off that maintained our southerly drift along the valley of the Rio Ica.
		We were now well inside the Paracas Reserve, and we did some sightseeing as we drove on stopping to admire the arched "Cathedral" formation to the south of the peninsula, and watch swarms of guanay cormorants gathered on the rocks.
	www.rumbosonline.com /articles/12-36-costasalvaje.htm (1385 words)

	Latinamerica Press: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The region is best known for being one end of the “Darién Gap,” the break in the Panamerican Highway that runs down the coast of the Americas.
		Near Santa Fe, the Panamerican Highway — a potholed dirt road that often becomes impassable in the rainy season — hardly seems worthy of the name.
		Even away from the highway, much of the forest is second-growth, cleared as homesteaders exhausted the soil in one place and planted their fields in a new area.
	www.latinamericapress.org /Article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=822 (1236 words)

	Cabañas Hueney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Going south onthe Panamerican highway after Temuco continue until Freire where you will leave the highway and take the road to Villarrica (51 km).
		Going north on the Panamerican highway after the city of Loncoche take the route to Villarrica (40 km).
		There are multiple departures everyday from Santiago to Temuco, once in the Temuco airport you can rent a car, take a "transfer" (very expensive), or take a taxi that will take you to the highway where you can take a local bus every approximately 20 minutes towards Villarrica or Pucón.
	www.hueney.com /en/Directions.html (315 words)

	Pan American Highway - 4Car Feature - from Channel 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Pan American runs from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego at the southernmost tip of South America, but the interesting bit is the section that runs from the Mexican border with Texas to the impenetrable rainforests of Panama's Darien Gap.
		The Darien Gap means it has never been possible to drive the entire length of the highway.
		This is still the land of el bandito but the end of the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua have taken some of the heat out of the journey to the centre of the earth.
	www.channel4.com /4car/feature/feature.jsp?id=58 (207 words)

	Santiago 2018 - The City
		New metro subway lines have cranes all over town busy and under the Mapocho river is a new highway.
		away of the center of the town, connected to the airport by two brand new highways.
		In the last years, a lot of urban highways were constructed in Santiago.
	stgo2018.tripod.com /city.html (815 words)

	Cultural Survival
		The Bayano region, which begins at the town of Cañitas (80 km east of Panama City on the PanAmerican Highway) and extends to the border of Darién Province at the village of Cañazas, marks the starting point of the tropical forest zone that covers all of Eastern Panama.
		Their arrival was facilitated by the eastward extension of the PanAmerican Highway and by a growing number of feeder roads carved into the forest by logging entrepreneurs and firms.
		Because the Emberá received access to prime land close to the PanAmerican Highway, theoretically they were in a better position than they had been before the dam.
	www.cs.org /publications/CSQ/csq-article.cfm?id=819 (3200 words)

	Pyramids in Ecuador - Crystalinks
		The pyramids are located 45 minutes north of Quito via the panamerican highway.
		Further along, signs on the highway indicate where to get off in order to reach the pyramids.
		The pyramids of Cochasqui are most frequently visited during the solar soltices and equinoxes, when local people gather to celebrate the passage of the sun.
	www.crystalinks.com /pyramidecuador.html (681 words)

	Costa Rica's National Parks
		An alternative, and equally scenic, route for those coming from Guanacaste is to take the PanAmerican Highway to the town of Cañas and then drive up into the hills to the town of Tilarán and follow Lake Arenal around its northern shore to the base of the volcano.
		The 70,000 hectares of Guanacaste National Park extend from Santa Rosa's border with the PanAmerican Highway northeastward to the peaks of Orosi and Cacao Volcanoes and across the Continental Divide onto the Caribbean slopes of these two volcanoes.
		Also, caution should be used if stopping anywhere along the highway other than at the ranger stations as, unfortunately, there have been numerous cases during the past few years of tourists being robbed at gunpoint while attempting to use trails where there is no park service vigilance.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/gonebirding/crnps.html (18825 words)

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		Amnesty International is concerned that the security forces may have used disproportionate and excessive force on 16 May 2006 against indigenous, peasant-farmer and afro-descendent people during a demonstration on the Panamerican Highway, in several areas of Cauca department.
		On the morning of 16 May, at least 15,000 people reportedly occupied the Panamerican Highway around the area of La MarÃa, in the municipality of PiendamÃ³, in the department of Cauca.
		In clearing the highway of demonstrators, the security forces reportedly shot at and used tear gas on demonstrators, and allegedly three army helicopters also took part in this action.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGAMR230242006 (561 words)

	Mancora and Closest Beaches \| mancora, peru - surf hotels hostels hostales
		Located on the kilometer 1165 of the Panamerican Highway (Panamericana Norte), this little fishermen village is on the north limit of Piura Department.
		Las Pocitas beach has only one central road (which was originally the Panamerican North Highway) that goes between the beach and a beautiful sloping hillside.
		Los Organos is becoming a tourist town thanks to the beautiful beaches far away from the Panamerican highway and their interesting prices conquer tourist that search for less noise and more silence.
	www.vivamancora.com /english/qmancora.htm (1615 words)

	Ferrari cars. Autonews, specifications and reviews for Ferrari with photo gallery
		Savannah, 5th November 2006 - The highway that leads from Miami northbound runs along the long beaches of Florida, visible between the houses and apartment blocks built close to the beach.
		The highway runs along the coast, parallel to an uninterrupted series of beach front houses.
		It was a very busy day for the Panamerican 20,000 crews during their two day pause in the city of Cartegena.
	www.auto-power-girl.com /cars/ferrari (1260 words)

	Panama 5 days 4 nights
		We depart from San José Costa Rica through the southern Panamerican highway passing by the Provinces of San José, Cartago and Puntarenas.
		The highest elevation on this road is 3,480 meters above sea level, an area known as "Cerro de la muerte".
		The Panamerican highway is wide enough and built on flat terrain, this makes our drive more easy and faster.
	www.costarica-net-guide.com /pty5d4n.htm (642 words)

	112502americas
		All along that highway, people are trying to get to the end of the road: the promised land of the
		The highway passes skyscrapers and hovels, computer factories and subsistence corn plots, dust storms and blizzards.
		The highway peters out in the Panamanian jungle outpost of Yaviza, crawling to life again 85 miles (137 kilometers) to the southeast in the Colombian countryside amid guerrillas and poppy fields.
	www.hispanicvista.com /html2/112502ba.htm (1214 words)

	The School of Panamerican Unrest - Updates
		The Melancholy of the Silent Periphery and The Panamerican Psychiatrist
		We were nonetheless able to convince the children that it was critical not to steal the materials until the next day— after that, they could dispose of it as they pleased.
		The fact that we conducted the Panamerican ceremony from the balcony of the Cabildo, which was until recently the Paraguayan congress, gave the event a particularly significant dimension.
	www.panamericanismo.org /updates.php?start=8 (1612 words)

	Landslides in Central America
		Pockets are scattered and not of as large a concern in terms of immediate threats to people, but they have disrupted transportation routes, in particular the PanAmerican Highway at several locations.
		In a general way, the geographic distribution of landslides roughly corresponds to the distribution of young ash, tuff, and tephra deposits on steep slopes incised valley walls and river channels.
		PanAmerican Highway Closure: slides have blocked highway in area west of San Salvador, but major slide has blocked it east of Ilopango.
	landslides.usgs.gov /research/other/centralamerica.php (1111 words)

	The sand dunes of Samalayuca: the kingdom of sand in Chihuahua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Something really amazing was to find a waterhole where the Samalayuca mountains meet the highway, only a few meters from one of the most desert-like places in North America.
		The storms are so powerful that one must drastically reduce the car’s speed and pay very special attention to not lose sight of the Panamerican Highway.
		It is likely that the sand dunes had grown to the east while we were there, and the dominating currents blow from west to southwest in mid June.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com /english/naturaleza/bellezas_naturales/detalle.cfm?idsec=6&idsub=0&idpag=2173 (1917 words)

	About Santa Rosa Information of Costa Rica's National Park - Costa Rica Itaita Villas
		Along the entrance road, there are two vistas on the right side which provide spectacular views and a well deserved resting spot.
		Car - Just continue north along the Panamerican Highway from Liberia until you reach the Park's entrance on the left side of the road.
		The road from the main, upper level camping area down to the beach is at times restricted even in the dry season.
	www.costaricaitaitavillas.com /aboutcr/santa.php (794 words)

	The Auto Channel - Search Results
		PanAmerican Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Lexor International CALGARY, Alberta--Oct. 17, 2001-- PanAmerican Automotive Corporation (OTC-PAAT) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of Lexor International, Inc., a Maryland corporation
		PanAmerican to Show WorldStar Vehicle in European Auto Show CALGARY, Alberta--June 5, 2001-- PanAmerican Automotive Corp. (OTC:PAAT) is pleased to announce that the WorldStar vehicle for which PanAmerican currently holds the Master Licenses for all of the Caribbean countries
		PanAmerican Automotive Corp. Reports that the Letter Agreements Will be Terminated CALGARY, Alberta--April 20, 2001--PanAmerican Automotive Corp. (OTC-PAAT) reports that by mutual agreement the Letter Agreements announced by the company on Feb. 15, 2001 will be terminated.
	www.theautochannel.com /search/search.html?words=Panamerican+Automotive (579 words)

	Osa Peninsula Tours, Costa Rica, Cano Island, Corcovado National Park, Snorkeling, SCUBA Diving
		Once at the stop sign of the Panamerican Highway South turn right, cross the bridge, and turn right again to Sierpe.
		After Buenos Aires continue the highway along the side of Terraba river until you reach Palmar Norte.
		From San Isidro del General take the Panamerican Highway south to Buenos Aires.
	www.costaricantrails.com /tours/osapeninsula.html (487 words)

	Latinamerica Press: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The region is best known for being one end of the “Darién Gap,” the break in the Panamerican Highway that runs down the coast of the Americas.
		Near Santa Fe, the Panamerican Highway — a potholed dirt road that often becomes impassable in the rainy season — hardly seems worthy of the name.
		Even away from the highway, much of the forest is second-growth, cleared as homesteaders exhausted the soil in one place and planted their fields in a new area.
	www.lapress.org /Article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=822 (1230 words)

	DiscountHotel-Worldwide.com -- Destination Guides - South ...
		LAS LOMAS itself is an attractive fishing village with a beach that's especially good for spotting pelicans, about 90km to the south and off the Panamerican Highway.
		Just beyond this, at Km 595 of the Panamerican Highway, is a strange uplifted zone, a natural oasis with its own microclimate stretching for about 20km.
		To get to the ruins, take a taxi from Chala (about $10), or catch an Arequipa-bound bus along the Panamerican Highway and ask to be dropped off at Km 603.
	destinations.discounthotel-worldwide.com /index.jsp?action=viewLocation&locationId=26377&cid=87586 (467 words)

	:: Panama Beaches \|\| Focus Panama ::
		Cross the Canal from Panama City, over the Bridge of the Americas, onto the Pan American Highway and you are beachward bound.
		The nearest of them —beaches, not senoritas — is 50 miles up the Panamerican Highway from Panama City.
		Las Lajas, an hour from David to the east on the Panamerican Highway, is popular with Chiricanos.
	www.focuspublicationsint.com /focuspanama/en/beaches.htm (468 words)

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