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Yungas Road

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The North Yungas Road (also known as Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Camino a Los Yungas, Death Road, Road of death or Road of fate) is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. [1]

38 relations: Adrenaline, Altiplano, Asphalt, BBC, BBC News Online, Bolivia, Bridge, Car chase, Chaco War, Chulumani, Coroico, Dead Man's Curve, Drainage, Graphic novel, Guard rail, Hamish & Andy, History (U.S. TV network), Ice Road Truckers, Inter-American Development Bank, La Paz, Lonely Planet, Marcus Brigstocke, Mitsubishi Outlander, Mountain biking, Nine Network, Ottawa Citizen, Pacific Ocean, Paraguay, Phill Jupitus, Rainforest, Slaughter alley, The Broken Ear, The Times, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, Top Gear (series 14), Top Gear: Bolivia Special, World's Most Dangerous Roads, Yungas.

Adrenaline

Adrenaline, also known as adrenalin or epinephrine, is a hormone, neurotransmitter, and medication.

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Altiplano

The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla"), Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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Car chase

A car chase is the vehicular hot pursuit of suspects by law enforcers.

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Chaco War

The Chaco War (1932–1935; Guerra del Chaco, Cháko Ñorairõ. Secretaría Nacional de Cultura de Paraguay) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known in Spanish as Chaco Boreal) of South America, which was thought to be rich in oil.

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Chulumani

Chulumani is a municipality in Bolivia.

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Coroico

Coroico is a town in Nor Yungas Province, in the La Paz Department of western Bolivia.

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Dead Man's Curve

Dead man's curve is a nickname for a curve in a roadway that has claimed lives because of numerous crashes.

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Drainage

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

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Guard rail

Guard rail, guardrails — or railings around properties and more generally outside of North America in some uses overlaps the industrial term "guide rail".

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Hamish & Andy

Hamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee.

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History (U.S. TV network)

History (originally The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Ice Road Truckers

Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that premiered on History, on June 17, 2007.

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Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB or IDB or BID) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace), also named Chuqi Yapu (Chuquiago) in Aymara, is the seat of government and the de facto national capital of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (the constitutional capital of Bolivia is Sucre).

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Marcus Brigstocke

Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian, actor and satirist who also holds French citizenship.

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Mitsubishi Outlander

The Mitsubishi Outlander is a compact crossover (Mid-size from 2007-present) manufactured by Japanese automaker Mitsubishi.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paraguay

Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.

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Phill Jupitus

Phillip Christopher Jupitus (born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Slaughter alley

Slaughter Alley is an American colloquial name given for sections of highway known for high rates of fatal traffic accidents.

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The Broken Ear

The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée), also published as Tintin and the Broken Ear, is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft.

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Top Gear (series 14)

The fourteenth series of Top Gear aired during 2009-10 on BBC Two and BBC HD, and consisted of 7 episodes, beginning on November 15, 2009, and concluding on January 3, 2010.

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Top Gear: Bolivia Special

Top Gear: Bolivia Special is a special 76-minute episode of the motoring series Top Gear, originally broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom at 19:45 on 27 December 2009.

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World's Most Dangerous Roads

World's Most Dangerous Roads is a British TV series in which two celebrities are filmed as they journey by 4×4 vehicle along roads considered among the world's most dangerous.

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Yungas

The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina.

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Redirects here:

Bolivia's death road, Camino de las Yungas, Coroico Road, Death Road, El Camino de la Muerte, Grove's Road, North Yungas Road, Road of Death, Road of death, The Death Road.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road

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