Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Latin America

Latin America
A regional task force of WikiProject Highways

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Welcome to the Latin American Highways task force of WikiProject Highways. This task force covers the major pan-national, national and sub-national Latin American and Caribbean highway systems and components. Highways in Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands are in the scope of the US Roads WikiProject.

Participants

1. Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs), initial co-founder of the taskforce.
2. Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) - assisting in development of task force
3. Fortguy (talk · contribs) - familiar with some Mexican routes and resources
4. Bumm13 (talk · contribs) - been doing major overhauling of Mexico Federal Highway route articles
5. Roqz (talk · contribs) - articles and stubs on the National Road Network of Costa Rica
6. TheObservantOne (talk · contribs) - articles and stubs on the National Road network of Bolivia
7. CubanoBoi (talk · contribs) - articles on the road network of Cuba

To do

Article alerts

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Guidelines

Tagging and assessment

Any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the project banner for WikiProject Highways. To each of these banners, you should add |latin-america= yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.

Latin America road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
B			1				1
C	2		16	2		3	23
Start	1	2	50	18		8	79
Stub	2	3	523	330		73	931
List	2	11	8	6			27
Future			1				1
Category					69		69
Disambig					2		2
Project					4		4
Redirect			2	1	30		33
Template					23		23
Assessed	7	16	601	357	128	84	1,193
Total	7	16	601	357	128	84	1,193
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,076			Ω = 5.88

Latin America road transport articles by quality log

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Highways.

Userbox template

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Latin America/Userbox}}

This user is a member of the
Latin American Highways
Task Force.

Infobox template

This task force uses {{infobox road}} or {{infobox road junction}} like the parent project.

Stub templates

• {{Road-stub}}
  • {{Argentina-road-stub}}
  • {{Brazil-road-stub}}
  • {{Chile-road-stub}}
  • {{CostaRica-road-stub}}
  • {{Mexico-road-stub}}
  • {{Uruguay-road-stub}}
  • Any more specific stub template for each Latin American country.

Recognized content

Did you know? articles

• BR-319 (Brazil highway) (2016-10-22)
• Mexican Federal Highway 180D (2017-02-18)
• Mexican Federal Highway 95D (2017-03-06)
• Mexican Federal Highway 15D (2017-04-10)
• Mexican Federal Highway 40D (2017-05-16)
• Mexican Federal Highway 47D (2017-07-05)

Resources

Argentina

• Route numbering methodology and route list (in Spanish) from the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad
• Highway map (in Spanish) from the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad

Brazil

Route logs (in Portuguese) of the federal system from the Ministério dos Transportes

Chile

Highway maps (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Obras Públicas

Colombia

A number of useful documents are linked at Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto:Carreteras de Colombia

Costa Rica

MOPT GeoPortal GIS (in Spanish, but easy to navigate) from the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes, provides a very basic Geographic Information System using an OpenStreetMap base layer with a National Road Network layer on top. This is the official and up to date map of routes for the country (August 2020).

Ecuador

Highway network map (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas

El Salvador

Route logs and system map (in Spanish) by department from Ministerio de Obras Públicas

Guatemala

• Maps by regional department (in Spanish) from the Dirección General de Caminos
• Registered highway network (in Spanish) from the Dirección General de Caminos

Honduras

Route logs and maps (in Spanish) from the Secretaría de Obras Públicas, Transporte y Vivienda

Jamaica

Route logs and maps from the National Works Agency

Mexico

National resources

• Route logs by state (in Spanish) from federal Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) include some state routes
• Lengths of the paved federal network by state (in Spanish) from SCT includes spurs and bypasses with ratings by class
• Highway maps by state (in Spanish) from SCT
• Shapefiles from Instituto Nacioal de Estadística y Geographía (INEGI)
• More shapefiles from Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
• Shapefiles from the North American Transportation Atlas compiled by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation

State resources

• Chihuahua state highway map (in Spanish) from state Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas includes more numbered state routes than federal map
• Sonora state road network from Junta de Caminos del Estado de Sonora

Nicaragua

Highway network inventory (in Spanish) with maps and route logs by department from the División General de Planificación of the Ministerio de Transporte e Infraesctructura

Paraguay

• Highway maps from the Dirección de Planificación Vial, Viceministerio de Obras Públicas, Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Comunicaciones
• Route lengths and termini from Ministerio de Industria y Comercio

Peru

• National Highway System map (in Spanish) from the Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones
• Route logs (in Spanish) from the Sistema Integrado de Información Vial, Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones