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Route 8 (Bolivia)

highway in Bolivia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ2177503 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 8 is a National Road in the Beni Department of Bolivia. It runs for 696 kilometres from Guayaramerín to Yucumo, where the Route 3 can be joined.

Route

Route 8 crosses the western area of the Beni Department in a north-south direction, from Guayaramerin to Yucumo. It begins in the Bolivian lowlands on the border with Brazil and runs roughly parallel to the Beni River along the Moxos plains in the Beni savannah to the eastern edge of the Bolivian forelands.

The northernmost section of Route 8, from Guayaramerin to Riberalta is paved, as is the southernmost section, from Yucumo to Rurrenabaque. There are plans in place to continue asphalting the unpaved sections, so that the entire Route 8 is paved.

History

Route 8 was declared a Bolivian National Road under the Network "Red Vial Fundamental" by Decree 25.134 of 31 August 1998.

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“Route 8 (Bolivia)” enters the record as highway in Bolivia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Route, Bolivia and highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Route 8 (Bolivia)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.