E40 (Ecuador)
| Via E40 in Ecuador | |
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| Operator: | Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas |
| Start of the street: | Salinas |
| End of street: | Puerto Morona |
| Overall length: | 649 km |
| of which in operation: | 649 km |
The E40 or Transversal Austral is a road in Ecuador . The road is an east-west route through the south of the country, from Salinas via Guayaquil to Puerto Morona on the border with Peru . The E40 is 649 kilometers long.
Street description
The E40 begins in the coastal city of Salinas, on a peninsula in the Pacific. The trail heads east and crosses the E15 in Santa Elena . This is a metropolitan area and the E40 has 2 × 2 lanes here. The entire route to the city of Guayaquil is a 2 × 2 motorway, but not as developed. The E40 runs through the city of Guayaquil, officially the E40 functions as a ring road with 2 × 3 lanes around the north side of the city. A bridge with 2 × 5 lanes leads over the Río Daule . The road then leads south through La Puntilla and crosses the Río Babahoyo . A bridge with 2 × 4 lanes crosses the river to Durán . Then the trunk road has 2 × 2 lanes again and crosses the E25 .
East of Guayaquil, the E40 rises from the coastal plain into the Andes to an altitude of around 3,500 meters. North of the city of Cuenca is a double numbering with the E35. After Cuenca, the E40 heads east and then into the mountains east of the main mountain range. The road ends in the Amazon jungle in Puerto Morona near the border with Peru. There is no border crossing, the E40 ends before the border.
history
The E40 is one of the main roads of Ecuador and is also one of the few that will be extended over a larger section, so it has at least 2 × 2 lanes in the western part of the Andes, with up to 2 × 5 lanes in Guayaquil. Around 2004, the route from Santa Elena to Guayaquil was expanded to 2 × 2 lanes. The eastern part of the ring of Guayaquil was opened to traffic around 2006. On May 5, 2006, the Puente de la Unidad Nacional was doubled over the Río Daule and increased from 2 × 2 to 2 × 5 lanes. This bridge was originally opened to traffic on October 9, 1970. Between 2011 and 2013, the number of lanes on the eastern bridge over the Babahoyo River was also doubled. In the years after 2000, the E40 in eastern Ecuador was upgraded from a very bad road to a good road. Only the eastern part is of poor quality.
Web links
- Information on Wegenwiki.nl (Dutch)