Panamericana
feminine noun
also:
- la Panamericana -> the Pan-American Highway
LA PANAMERICANA The carretera Panamericana (the Panamerican highway) runs almost without a break for some 48,000 kilometers from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile, connecting the entire American continent. The project was first proposed in 1925 and construction began three years later, but the road has yet to cross the densely forested Darien Gap in Panama. For all its merits as a prestige project, and its concrete benefits as a means of communication, further construction is dogged by controversy over the real threat to the ecosystem of the rainforest and to the culture of the indigenous peoples who live in the Darien region.
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panamericana [pahn-ah-may-re-cah’-no, nah]
adjective
1. Pan-American, of both Americas.
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