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The Expedition crossed the Atrato Swamp in Colombia with the cars on special inflatable rafts that were carried in the backs of the vehicles. The first fully overland wheeled crossing (others used boats for some sections) of the Gap was that of British cyclist Ian Hibell, who rode from Cape Horn to Alaska between 1971 and 1973. Hibell took the ...
Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration ...
The Darién Gap and the break in the Pan-American Highway between Yaviza, Panama, and Turbo, Colombia. The Colombia–Panama border is the 339-kilometer-long (211 mi) international boundary between Colombia and Panama. [1] It also splits the Darién Gap, a break across the North American and South American continents.
This comes as the number of children crossing the Darién Gap has increased by 40% this year, ... the first border control of the Darien Province in Panama, on September 22, 2023. - Luis Acosta ...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in large numbers, officials in Colombia said on Monday, after being stranded for much of last week in ...
A significant interruption in the highway is the Darién Gap, a dense rainforest area between Panama and Colombia. No road traverses the Darien Gap to connect the two countries for traffic, and although ferries previously carried vehicles around the gap to service this need, no car carrying ferries have operated there in recent decades.
The United Nations on Wednesday called on countries to join efforts to contain the record-high traffic of U.S.-bound migrants and refugees crossing the treacherous jungle region linking Panama and ...
More than 500,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap in a record-breaking 2023. So far this year, more than 212,000 migrants have crossed. The National Border Service this week reported that 11,363 migrants had crossed the border since Mulino took office, about 9,000 fewer than the same period last year.