Ruta 13 (Bolivia)

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	Ruta 13 in Bolivia
	Basic data
Operator:	Administradora Boliviana ; de Carreteras
Overall length:	370 km
Departments :	Pando ; Beni ;
	Pando Department
	Beni Department

The Ruta 13 is a national road in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Routing

The road has a length of 370 kilometers and crosses the northern part of the Bolivian lowlands from west to east, from the border with the Brazilian state of Acre to the flood plain of the Río Beni . The road crosses the two departments of Pando and Beni along its entire length and leads mostly through intact tropical rainforest , only in a narrow strip next to the road is grazing land obtained by slash and burn. The road begins in the northwest as an extension of the Brazilian "Estrada de Pacífico" (BR-317) in Cobija and ends in the east at the town of El Triangulo on Ruta 8 , which follows the Río Beni from Yucumo in the south to Guayaramerín in the northeast.

The first 33 kilometers of Ruta 13 in the north-west are paved, the remaining 337 kilometers from Porvenir to El Triangulo are unpaved. The road crosses five major rivers on its way, three of which have to be crossed by ferry: with one ferry the Río Madre de Dios and the Río Manupare near Sena and with a second the Río Beni , which marks the border between the departments of Pando and Beni forms. There are bridges over the Río Orthon near Puerto Rico and the Río Geneshuaya , the easternmost of the five rivers. Construction over the Río Beni and the Río Madre de Dios / Río Manupare is also planned , so that ferries are no longer necessary.