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Latin America
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Welcome to the Latin American Highways task force of WikiProject Highways. This task force covers the major pan-national, national and sub-national Latin American and Caribbean highway systems and components. Highways in Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands are in the scope of the US Roads WikiProject.

Participants

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  1. Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs), initial co-founder of the taskforce.
  2. Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) - assisting in development of task force
  3. Fortguy (talk · contribs) - familiar with some Mexican routes and resources
  4. Bumm13 (talk · contribs) - been doing major overhauling of Mexico Federal Highway route articles
  5. Roqz (talk · contribs) - articles and stubs on the National Road Network of Costa Rica
  6. TheObservantOne (talk · contribs) - articles and stubs on the National Road network of Bolivia
  7. CubanoBoi (talk · contribs) - articles on the road network of Cuba

To do

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Article alerts

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No Article alerts at this time.

Guidelines

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Tagging and assessment

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Any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the project banner for WikiProject Highways. To each of these banners, you should add |latin-america= yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.



Latin America road transport articles by quality log

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Templates

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For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Highways.

Userbox template

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Latin America/Userbox}}

 This user is a member of the
Latin American Highways
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Infobox template

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This task force uses {{infobox road}} or {{infobox road junction}} like the parent project.

Stub templates

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Recognized content

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Did you know? articles

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Resources

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Argentina

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Brazil

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Route logs (in Portuguese) of the federal system from the Ministério dos Transportes

Chile

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Highway maps (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Obras Públicas

Colombia

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A number of useful documents are linked at Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto:Carreteras de Colombia

Costa Rica

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MOPT GeoPortal GIS (in Spanish, but easy to navigate) from the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes, provides a very basic Geographic Information System using an OpenStreetMap base layer with a National Road Network layer on top. This is the official and up to date map of routes for the country (August 2020).

Ecuador

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Highway network map (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas

El Salvador

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Route logs and system map (in Spanish) by department from Ministerio de Obras Públicas

Guatemala

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Honduras

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Route logs and maps (in Spanish) from the Secretaría de Obras Públicas, Transporte y Vivienda

Jamaica

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Route logs and maps from the National Works Agency

Mexico

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National resources
  • Route logs by state (in Spanish) from federal Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) include some state routes
  • Lengths of the paved federal network by state (in Spanish) from SCT includes spurs and bypasses with ratings by class
  • Highway maps by state (in Spanish) from SCT
  • Shapefiles from Instituto Nacioal de Estadística y Geographía (INEGI)
  • More shapefiles from Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
  • Shapefiles from the North American Transportation Atlas compiled by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
State resources

Nicaragua

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Highway network inventory (in Spanish) with maps and route logs by department from the División General de Planificación of the Ministerio de Transporte e Infraesctructura

Paraguay

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  • Highway maps from the Dirección de Planificación Vial, Viceministerio de Obras Públicas, Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Comunicaciones
  • Route lengths and termini from Ministerio de Industria y Comercio

Peru

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  • National Highway System map (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones
  • Route logs (in Spanish) from the Sistema Integrado de Información Vial, Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones