Best Motorcycle Roads in Latin America
Latin America is adventure riding country. Ride along the Andes on Argentina's Ruta 40, through the fjords and glaciers of Chilean Patagonia on the Carretera Austral, between colonial gold-rush towns on Brazil's Estrada Real or up to the craters of Costa Rica's volcanoes.
Distances are long, roads can change from smooth asphalt to gravel without warning and the weather in Patagonia is famously wild — but the scenery and the welcome make it unforgettable.
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Ruta 40
Ruta 40 runs the length of Argentina along the eastern side of the Andes, from Cabo Vírgenes near the Strait of Magellan to La Quiaca on the Bolivian border — one of the longest roads in the world.
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Estrada Real
The Estrada Real ("Royal Road") follows the historic routes used to carry gold and diamonds from the mines of Minas Gerais to the coast of Rio de Janeiro in colonial Brazil. Today it is a network of signed roads…
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Carretera Austral
The Carretera Austral (Ruta 7) runs south from Puerto Montt through Chilean Patagonia toward Villa O'Higgins. It links isolated towns through temperate rainforest, fjords, hanging glaciers and turquoise rivers — one of…
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Ruta de los Volcanes
Costa Rica's Central Valley is surrounded by active volcanoes, and this route links them in a loop of mountain roads through coffee plantations and cloud forest before dropping to the Caribbean coast.
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