How the Treacherous Darien Gap Became a Migration Crossroads of the Americas

From the tundra abutting the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego off the southern tip of the South American mainland, the Pan-American Highway allows a driver to almost cover the length of the Americas on a single road. The stretch of asphalt is broken in only one place: the roughly 60-mile Darien Gap. The highway was never completed through the approximately 10,000-square-mile tropical jungle that covers the northernmost zone of Colombia and a significant portion of

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