Bolivia's Old Yungus Road is widely reported as the world's most lethal. The spectacular Andean route between Coroico and La Paz has earned a grisly cache amongst adventure travelers wanting to earn "I cycled the Death Road" t-shirts. The Yungus is just one of six Latin American roads that make the Association for Safe International Road Travel's list of the twenty most dangerous roads in the world. Interstate 116 in Brazil, the Panamerican highway in Costa Rica, the Cotopaxi Volcan road in Ecuador, Highway 1 in Mexico and Kuelap-Celendin-Cajamarca road in Peru are the others.
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