List of highways in Argentina
The basic structure of the Argentine trunk road network goes back to the road network in colonial times as well as roads built in the 19th century and star-shaped towards the capital Buenos Aires . In the first half of the 20th century, more and more cross-connections were established, some of which have remained difficult-to-pass dirt roads to this day.
In 1936 the current numbering scheme was designed. The road network is thus divided into national roads (rutas nacionales) and provincial roads (rutas provinciales) . There are also some motorways , but most of them are run as national or provincial roads, some of them with an A in front of the numbering. The exception to this rule are city highways, which have the same status as normal city streets.
Many trunk roads have been privatized since the 1990s, including most of the major national roads. However, the state does not sell the roads per se, but issues concessions for maintenance that last for several decades in exchange for permission to charge tolls .
Well-known highways
In particular, some routes that lead through various attractive landscapes or connect historical sites are known by tourists and adventurers all over the world.
The Ruta Nacional 9 is famous , the already important connection between Buenos Aires and Lima or Potosí in the colonial times , which leads through the historically important cities of Rosario, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy and Humahuaca and the most important development axis of Argentina actually represents: around 20 million people - 60% of the country's inhabitants - live in their catchment area.
The most popular streets for adventure tourists are the longest street in Argentina, the Ruta Nacional 40 , which runs through the whole west of Argentina from north to south, and the Ruta Nacional 3 , which runs from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, to the "end of the world" - as the area is often called - leads.
Highways
There are currently existing highways in Argentina mainly in the pampas and around the largest cities. It is planned to greatly expand the motorway network over the next ten years. This was supposed to happen as early as the 1980s, but economic crises and other problems delayed plans.
Four-lane national and provincial roads
The following routes have been developed similar to motorways (as of mid-2012):
- Ruta Nacional 1 : Buenos Aires - La Plata
- Ruta Nacional 3 : Cañuelas - San Miguel del Monte , Comodoro Rivadavia - Rada Tilly
- Ruta Nacional 7 : Buenos Aires - Luján, Villa Mercedes - Desaguadero toll station and La Paz - Mendoza
- Ruta Nacional 8 : Buenos Aires - Pilar
- Ruta Nacional 9 : Buenos Aires - Rosario - Córdoba , Banda del Río Salí - San Miguel de Tucumán - El Cadillal
- Ruta Nacional 12 : Zárate - Concepción del Uruguay , Bonpland - Paso de los Libres
- Ruta Nacional 19 : Santo Tomé (near Santa Fe) - Frontera (near San Francisco )
- Ruta Nacional 20 : Córdoba - Villa Carlos Paz
- Ruta Nacional 38 : Famaillá - San Miguel de Tucumán
- Ruta Nacional 40 : Tunuyán - Mendoza - Las Heras
- Ruta Nacional 66: Perico - San Salvador de Jujuy
- Ruta Nacional 205: Buenos Aires - Cañuelas
- Ruta Provincial 2 (Buenos Aires): Buenos Aires - Mar del Plata
- Ruta Provincial 6 (Buenos Aires): Campana - General Rodríguez
- Ruta Provincial 63 (Buenos Aires): Dolores - Ruta Provincial 11 (near San Clemente del Tuyú )
- Ruta Provincial 74 (Buenos Aires): Las Armas - General Madariaga (near Pinamar )
- Ruta Provincial 5 (Córdoba): Córdoba - Los Cedros
- Ruta Provincial E-53 (Cordoba): Río Ceballos - Salsipuedes
- Ruta Provincial 20 (San Luis): Juana Koslay (near San Luis) - La Toma
- Ruta Provincial 55 (San Luis): Arizona - Villa Mercedes - Santa Rosa del Conlara
- Ruta Provincial AP-01 (Santa Fe): Rosario - Santa Fe
The following routes are under construction:
- Ruta Nacional 3: Puerto Madryn - Trelew , Rada Tilly - Caleta Olivia
- Ruta Nacional 7: Desaguadero toll station - La Paz (Mendoza)
- Ruta Nacional 8: Pilar - Pergamino
- Ruta Nacional 9: Córdoba - Estación Juárez Celman (so far only accessible in one lane, construction interrupted since 1999)
- Ruta Nacional 14: Concepción del Uruguay - Bonpland (Corrientes)
- Ruta Provincial 6 (Buenos Aires): General Rodríguez - La Plata
- Ruta Provincial 5 (Cordoba): Los Cedros - Alta Gracia
- Ruta Provincial E-53 (Córdoba): Córdoba - Río Ceballos
A national roads
Some streets, not all of which are real highways, are marked with an A in front of the number. These are the following:
- A001: Buenos Aires bypass highway
- A002: Buenos Aires - Ezeiza Airport ( Ezeiza )
- A003: Boulogne - Tigre (northern Gran Buenos Aires )
- A004: Hudson - Juan María Gutierrez (southern Gran Buenos Aires)
- A005: Río Cuarto bypass (no motorway yet)
- A006: Las Cuevas - Monument Cristo Redentor ( Mendoza province , no motorway)
- A007: Santa Fe Bypass Highway
- A008: Rosario bypass motorway
- A009: Reconquista - Puerto Reconquista (no motorway)
- A010: Feeder from Puerto Madryn to Ruta Nacional 3 (no motorway)
- A011: Clorinda - Puerto Pilcomayo (no motorway, border road to Paraguay )
- A012: Rosario outer ring road, second lane under construction
- A014: San Juan Bypass Highway
- A015: Concordia - La Criolla (no motorway, border road to Uruguay )
- A016: San Miguel de Tucumán - San Miguel de Tucumán Airport (no motorway, but dual carriageway)
- A019: Cordoba bypass
- A023: Río Tala - San Pedro (Province of Buenos Aires, no motorway)
- A024: feeder from Campana to Ruta Nacional 9 (no motorway)
- A025: Feeder from San Antonio Este to Ruta Nacional 3 (no motorway)
- A026: Feeder from San Antonio Oeste to Ruta Nacional 3 (no motorway)
- ex A029: Rosario - Santa Fe. The highway is now under the province of Santa Fe.
Rutas Nacionales
In 2006 the national road network comprised 118 roads. 33,235 km of the network were paved, 3,577 km of paved gravel roads and 1,500 unpaved dirt roads.
The numbering of national roads 1-9 was originally based on the clockwise direction in which the road ran from Buenos Aires. Since Buenos Aires only allows access from south-east to north due to its location on the Río de la Plata , Ruta Nacional 1 is the south-easternmost entrance to the city, while Ruta Nacional 9 is the northernmost entrance.
This "star" is extended by Rutas 11-14, which branch off from Ruta 9 in a north-easterly direction and continue the logic: Ruta 14 runs parallel to the eastern border of Argentina.
Some numbers remained unoccupied: 4, 6, 10 and 13. The Ruta Nacional 1 is only a relatively short feeder road, the Ruta Nacional 2 was upgraded to a provincial road in the 1990s.
Numbers 15 to 50 are reserved for national highways that are not directly connected to the star around Buenos Aires. The numbers 15 to 30 denote east-west connections, between 31 and 40 north-south connections and between 41 and 50 other roads that do not fit into the scheme. From the Ruta Nacional 51 onwards, there are regional national roads, the numbers of which are divided into regions (Region I to VIII).
Roads in bold indicate important long-distance connections. Unless otherwise stated, the street is given in an east-west direction.
Star around Buenos Aires and Rosario (RN 1-14)
- Ruta Nacional 1: Buenos Aires - La Plata
- Ruta Nacional 3 : San Justo ( Partido La Matanza , near Buenos Aires ) - Ushuaia
- Ruta Nacional 5: Luján - Santa Rosa de Toay
- Ruta Nacional 7: Buenos Aires - Las Cuevas (border crossing to Chile in the province of Mendoza )
- Ruta Nacional 8: Ingeniero Pablo Nougués - Villa Mercedes
- Ruta Nacional 9: Buenos Aires - La Quiaca (border crossing to Bolivia in the Jujuy province )
- Ruta Nacional 11: Rosario - Clorinda (border crossing to Paraguay in the province of Formosa )
- Ruta Nacional 12: Zárate - Puerto Iguazú (border crossing to Brazil in the province of Misiones , western route)
- Ruta Nacional 14: Ceibas - Bernardo de Irigoyen (border crossing to Brazil in the province of Misiones, eastern route)
East-west connections (RN 16-30)
- Ruta Nacional 16: Resistencia - Metán (Salta Province, northernmost asphalt east-west connection)
- The Ruta 18, 168, 19 and 20 form a cross-connection between the border with Uruguay at Concordia and San Juan in the west of the country. It is planned to convert it into a motorway.
- Ruta Nacional 22 : Bahía Blanca - Paso de Pino Hachado (border crossing to Chile, Neuquén province )
- Ruta Nacional 23: San Antonio Oeste - Bariloche
- Ruta Nacional 25: Rawson - Esquel
- Ruta Nacional 26: Comodoro Rivadavia - Paso Coyhaique (border crossing to Chile, province of Chubut)
North-South connections (RN 31-40)
- Ruta Nacional 33: Rosario - Bahía Blanca
- Ruta Nacional 34 : Rosario - Pocitos (border crossing to Bolivia, province of Salta )
- Ruta Nacional 35: Bahía Blanca - Río Cuarto
- Ruta Nacional 36: Río Cuarto - Córdoba (feeder to RN 35)
- Ruta Nacional 38: Cordoba - San Miguel de Tucumán
- Ruta Nacional 40 : Cabo Vírgenes (near Río Gallegos ) - Ciénagas de Paicone (border with Bolivia )
Other roads (RN 41-50)
- Ruta Nacional 50 : Pichanal - Aguas Blancas (border crossing to Bolivia, province of Salta; connecting route to the RN 34)
Region I (northwest) RN 51-80
- Ruta Nacional 51 : Salta - Paso Sico (border crossing to Chile, province of Salta)
- Ruta Nacional 52 : Purmamarca - Paso de Jama (border crossing to Chile, Jujuy province; northernmost paved Andean pass road in South America)
- Ruta Nacional 60: Villa del Totoral (near Córdoba) - Paso de San Francisco (border crossing to Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 64: La Viña (near San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca ) - Santiago del Estero
- Ruta Nacional 65: Concepción - Andalgalá
- Ruta Nacional 66: Pampa Blanca - San Salvador de Jujuy
- Ruta Nacional 68 : Salta - Cafayate
- Ruta Nacional 74: Patquía - Nonogasta
- Ruta Nacional 75: La Rioja - Aimogasta
- Ruta Nacional 76: border between San Juan and La Rioja - Paso de Pircas Negras (border with Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 77: Desiderio Tello (La Rioja) - El Chaco (Cordoba)
- Ruta Nacional 78: Ruta Nacional 40 - Famatina - border between La Rioja and Catamarca
- Ruta Nacional 79: Quines ( Province of San Luis ) - Casa de Piedra (Province of Catamarca)
Region II (north) RN 81-100
- Ruta Nacional 81: Formosa - Grail. Ballivián (Salta Province)
- Ruta Nacional 86: Clorinda (border crossing to Paraguay) - Tartagal (northernmost east-west connection in Argentina)
- Ruta Nacional 89: Resistencia - Taboada (near Santiago del Estero)
- Ruta Nacional 95: Va. Grail Güemes (Province of Formosa) - Ceres ( Province of Santa Fe)
- Ruta Nacional 98: Vera (Prov.Santa Fe) - Colonia Dora (near Santiago del Estero)
Region III (northeast) RN 101-140
- Ruta Nacional 101: Puerto Iguazú - Bernardo de Irigoyen (Prov.Misiones, parallel to the border with Brazil)
- Ruta Nacional 105: Apóstoles (Prov. Misiones) - Posadas
- Ruta Nacional 117: Paso de los Libres - Uruguaiana (Brazil, national road to the border)
- Ruta Nacional 118: Villa Olivari - Saladas (Prov.Corrientes)
- Ruta Nacional 119: Cuatro Bocas - Mercedes (Prov.Corrientes)
- Ruta Nacional 120: feeder between RN 12 and RN 14 in the north-east of the Corrientes province, near Gobernador Virasoro
- Ruta Nacional 121: Santo Tomé - border with Brazil (near Sao Borja )
- Ruta Nacional 122: Yapeyú - Ruta Nacional 14 (feeder)
- Ruta Nacional 123: 9 de Julio (Prov. Corrientes) - Paso de los Libres
- Ruta Nacional 127: Cuatro Bocas - Paraná
- Ruta Nacional 130: Colón - Villaguay
- Ruta Nacional 131: Concepción del Uruguay - Gdor. Echagüe (xRN 12)
- Ruta Nacional 135: Colón - border with Uruguay (near Paysandú )
- Ruta Nacional 136: Gualeguaychú - Puente Internacional Grail. San Martín (border crossing to Uruguay)
Region IV (west) RN 141-155
- Ruta Nacional 141: San Juan - Chepes
- Ruta Nacional 142: Mendoza - Encón (Prov. San Juan)
- Ruta Nacional 143: Pareditas (Prov.Mendoza) - Algarrobo del Aguila (Prov. La Pampa )
- Ruta Nacional 144: feeder between RN 143 and RN 40 (south of the province of Mendoza)
- Ruta Nacional 145: Bardas Blancas (Mendoza) - Paso Pehuenche (border to Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 146: San Rafael - Luján ( San Luis Province )
- Ruta Nacional 147: San Luis - La Chañarienta
- Ruta Nacional 149: Uspallata (Mendoza) - Las Flores (San Juan)
- Ruta Nacional 150: Patquía (Prov. La Rioja) - Paso del Agua Negra (border crossing to Chile, Province of San Juan)
- Ruta Nacional 151: Neuquén - Algarrobo del Aguila (Prov. La Pampa)
- Ruta Nacional 152: Padre Angel Buodo (near Santa Rosa de Toay ) - Chelforó (Prov.Río Negro)
- Ruta Nacional 153: Las Catitas - Real del Padre (Prov.Mendoza)
- Ruta Nacional 154: Hucal (Prov. La Pampa) - Río Colorado (Prov. Río Negro) (part of an important north-south connection)
Region V (center) RN 156-185
- Ruta Nacional 157: San Miguel de Tucumán - Salinas Grandes
- Ruta Nacional 158: San Francisco - Río Cuarto
- Ruta Nacional 168: Santa Fé - Paraná (see above)
- Ruta Nacional 173: Ruta Nacional 11 (km. 388) - Puerto Aragón (Santa Fe)
- Ruta Nacional 174: Rosario - Victoria
- Ruta Nacional 175: Ruta Nacional 11 (km. 334) - Puerto General San Martín (Santa Fe)
- Ruta Nacional 177: Ruta Nacional 9 (km. 246) - Villa Constitución (Santa Fe)
- Ruta Nacional 178: Pergamino - Las Rosas
Region VI (Province of Buenos Aires) RN 186-230
- Ruta Nacional 188: San Nicolás de los Arroyos - General Alvear (Prov. Mendoza) - Important east-west connection
- Ruta Nacional 193: Zárate - Solís
- Ruta Nacional 205: Buenos Aires - San Carlos de Bolivar
- Ruta Nacional 226: Mar del Plata - General Villegas
- Ruta Nacional 228: Necochea - Tres Arroyos
- Ruta Nacional 229: Bahía Blanca - Punta Alta
Region VII (Neuquén and Río Negro, partly Buenos Aires) RN 231-255
- Ruta Nacional 231: San Carlos de Bariloche - Paso Puyehue (border crossing to Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 232: Border between La Pampa and Río Negro - Chelforó
- Ruta Nacional 234: Correntoso - La Rinconada (Prov. Neuquén)
- Ruta Nacional 237: Neuquén - San Carlos de Bariloche
- Ruta Nacional 242: Las Lajas - Paso Pino Hachado (border to Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 249: Bahía Blanca - Punta Alta (feeder)
- Ruta Nacional 250: Viedma - Choele Choel
- Ruta Nacional 251: Río Colorado - San Antonio Oeste (part of an important north-south connection)
- Ruta Nacional 252: Grünbein - Ingeniero White
Region VIII (Chubut and Santa Cruz) RN 256-300
- Ruta Nacional 259: Esquel - Los Cipreces (border crossing to Chile)
- Ruta Nacional 260: Ruta Nacional 40 - Paso Huemules (border with Chile, province of Chubut)
- Ruta Nacional 281: Fitz Roy - Puerto Deseado
- Ruta Nacional 288: Comandante Luis Piedra Buena - Tres Lagos (Province of Santa Cruz)
- Ruta Nacional 293: Rospentek Aike - Paso Laurita / Casas Viejas (border to Chile, Prov.Santa Cruz)
Roads on Tierra del Fuego (AJ)
The roads on Tierra del Fuego are numbered with letters and are considered national roads , although some of them are only short. This custom dates from the time when the province was a national territory and therefore the nation state took care of the roads.
- Ruta Nacional A: Viamonte - Estancia María Luisa
- Ruta Nacional B: Río Grande - Comisaría Radman (border with Chile, but no official border crossing!)
- Ruta Nacional C: Río Grande - Estancia El Salvador (border with Chile)
- Ruta Nacional D: Río Grande - Estancia Marina
- Ruta Nacional E: Río Grande - Estancia Río Apen
- Ruta Nacional F: Río Grande - Estancia Carmen (Lago Yehuin)
- Ruta Nacional H: Estancia María (RN3) - Estancia Carmen (Lago Yehuin)
- Ruta Nacional J: Ushuaia - Estancia Moat (Argentina's southernmost road, also known as Ruta Nacional 0 )
Major provincial roads
Buenos Aires
- Ruta Provincial 2 (ex. Nacional 2): Buenos Aires - Mar del Plata
- Ruta Provincial 4: San Isidro - Quilmes (inner ring road around Buenos Aires)
- Ruta Provincial 6: Campana - La Plata (middle ring road around Buenos Aires)
- Ruta Provincial 11: Punta Lara - Mar del Sur
- Ruta Provincial 29: Buenos Aires - Balcarce
- Ruta Provincial 41: Baradero - Castelli (outer ring road around the Buenos Aires metropolitan area)
- Ruta Provincial 51: Ramallo - Bahía Blanca
- Ruta Provincial 65: Junín - Guamini
- Ruta Provincial 74: Pinamar - Benito Juárez
Catamarca
- Ruta Provincial 42: San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca - Las Cañas (shortest connection to Santiago del Estero)
Cordoba
- Ruta Provincial 4: Villa María - Laboulaye
- Ruta Provincial 5: Córdoba - Almafuerte
- Ruta Provincial 17: Charbonier - Brinkmann
Corrientes
- Ruta Provincial 40: Mercedes - Posadas
Chaco
- Ruta Provincial 94: Avla Terral - Grail. Pinedo
Chubut
- Ruta Provincial 1: Puerto Lobos - Comodoro Rivadavia (coastal road)
- Ruta Provincial 2: Puerto Madryn - Puerto Pirámides
- Ruta Provincial 4: Puerto Madryn - El Bolsón
- Route Provincial 20: Facundo - José de San Martín
Entre Rios
- Route Provincial 1: La Paz - San José de Feliciano
- Ruta Provincial 6: Gualeguay - La Paz
- Ruta Provincial 11: Gualeguay - Paraná
Formosa
- Ruta Provincial 3: Espinillo - El Colorado (best north-south connection, former RN 90)
Jujuy
- Ruta Provincial 70: Cauchari - La Quiaca (western bypass of the province)
La Pampa
- Ruta Provincial 1: Coronel Lagos - Río Colorado (north-south connection, asphalted)
- Ruta Provincial 10: Winfreda - Cerro Negro (north cross-connection, paved)
- Ruta Provincial 20: General Acha - 25 de Mayo (south cross connection, asphalted)
La Rioja
- Ruta Provincial 26: Los Baldecitos - Vinchina
Mendoza
- Ruta Provincial 153: Las Catitas - General Alvear (north-south connection in the east)
Misiones
- Ruta Provincial 17: Eldorado - Bernardo de Irigoyen (border crossing to Brazil)
Neuquén
- Ruta Provincial 6: El Cruce - Paso de Copulhue (border crossing to Chile)
- Ruta Provincial 7: Neuquén - El Tril
- Ruta Provincial 17: Picun Leufú - Añelo
Río Negro
- Ruta Provincial 1: Viedma - Puerto Lobos (border with the province of Chubut, parallel to the coast)
- Ruta Provincial 2: El Solito - San Antonio Oeste
- Ruta Provincial 4: Céspedes - Valcheta
- Ruta Provincial 5: Playas Doradas - Maquinchao
- Ruta Provincial 6: Embalse Casa de Piedra (La Pampa) - El Maitén (Chubut)
Salta
- Ruta Provincial 5: Lumbrera - Pichanal
- Ruta Provincial 17: Salar de Pocitos - Salar del Hombre Muerto (Catamarca)
- Ruta Provincial 27: Cauchari - Mina La Casualidad
- Ruta Provincial 33: Salta - Payogasta
San Juan
- ex Ruta Provincial 12: San Juan - Calingasta (today RN 141)
- Ruta Provincial 412: Uspallata (Mendoza) - Iglesia
- Ruta Provincial 436: Talacasto - Iglesia
- Ruta Provincial 510: Marayes - Los Baldecitos
San Luis
- Ruta Provincial 1: Villa Mercedes - Merlo (border with Cordoba)
- Ruta Provincial 3: Leandro N. Alem - Anchorena
- Ruta Provincial 55: border to La Pampa (near Arizona) - Santa Rosa del Conlara (east bypass)
Santa Cruz
- Ruta Provincial 5: Río Gallegos - El Calafate
- Ruta Provincial 9: Monte León - El Calafate
- Ruta Provincial 12: Caleta Olivia - La Rosita
- Ruta Provincial 25: Puerto San Julián - Tamel Aike
- Ruta Provincial 43: Fitz Roy - Los Antiguos (border crossing to Chile) - most important east-west connection in southern Patagonia
Santa Fe
- Ruta Provincial 1: Santa Fe - Reconquista
- Ruta Provincial 2: San Justo - Tostado
- Ruta Provincial 13: Las Rosas - San Cristóbal
- Ruta Provincial 14: Rosario - Diego de Alvear (Buenos Aires)
Santiago del Estero
- Ruta Provincial 92/5: Santiago del Estero - Tintina - Monte Quemado
- Ruta Provincial 6: Villa Ojo de Agua - Pampa de los Guanacos
Tucuman
- Ruta Provincial 307: Monteros - Quilmes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report of the Road Construction Office 2003-2006 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.5 MB)
Web links
- Dirección Nacional de Vialidad , state institution in charge of the maintenance of national roads