Antioquia road map
Antioquia has 1,508 kilometers of roads that are part of the national network. The secondary road network has 4,675 kilometers. The tertiary road network has a length of 1,944 kilometers, while the Plan 2500 has 222.12 kilometers. The main routes are the trunk of the west whose length is approximately 308 kilometers; The trunk of Urabá measures 347.76 kilometers; The transversal Tribugá - Medellín - Arauca, which measures 239 kilometers; The alternates to the western trunk; The transversal one of the Caribbean, that unites Turbo - Necoclí - Arboletes; The transversal Medellín - Bogotá; And the circuit Medellín - Rionegro valley.
There are projects to be built in the department three roads in double carriageway that will be called, as a whole, Highways for Prosperity (APP): Medellín - La Pintada - Santa Fe de Antioquia -, Medellín - Turbo, and Medellín - Puerto Berrío. The construction of the dual carriageway Medellín - Turbo will make possible the execution of the shortage of the Pan American highway.
The APP project will have a road length of 1,160 km and includes a total of 696 viaducts with a total of 63 km and 131 tunnels totaling 90 km, at a cost of USD 7,240 million. It should be noted that Medellín participates in the creation and execution of the megaproject that is outside its jurisdiction.
In addition to the APP, the mega-project Autopista de las Américas has already been planned and approved by CONFIS in 2009. This highway joins Venezuela with Panama, at last speeds up the passage through the well-known "Darién Gap".