National Route 148 ( es, Ruta Nacional 148) is a short highway located in the central region of

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. It has an approximate extension of 40 km that run in a north–south direction. Its kilometer 0 is located at the entrance to the city of

Villa Dolores Villa Dolores is a city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , makin ...

, more precisely at the Melchor Martino roundabout, on the end of the Provincial Route E88 that connects the towns of Las Tapias with the aforementioned Villa Dolores, in the west of the Córdoba Province, at the southern end of the

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, and ends when it reaches the border with the neighboring

San Luis Province San Luis () is a province of Argentina located near the geographical center of the country (on the 32° South parallel). Neighboring provinces are, from the north clockwise, La Rioja, Córdoba, La Pampa, Mendoza and San Juan. History The ci ...

. On the attached map it is marked in red. In green is the section between the provincial border with Córdoba and National Route 188, a section that passed to provincial jurisdiction in 2008, and the same was done with the section in purple in 1979. In this short route, it does not cross any population.

Former routes

Formerly, this route had a length of 761 km, up to the link with National Route 35, in the town of

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, that is, the complete route indicated on the map. The section to the south of Nueva Galia, in San Luis, marked in purple and unpaved, passed to provincial jurisdiction through National Decree 1595 of 1979, except for the section between km 263.87 and 296.78 that corresponded to the overlap with National Route 152. The Province of San Luis accepted the transfer in 1981. The section between Villa Dolores and

Villa Mercedes Villa Mercedes is a city in the province of San Luis, Argentina. It lies on the center-east of the province, on the left-hand banks of the Quinto River, 32 km from the border with Córdoba, on National Route 148, and near the intersection ...

was paved in 1967, while the section between Nueva Galia and Villa Mercedes was paved in the first half of the 1970s. By agreement signed on 4 September 2001 between the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing and the Government of the Province of San Luis, National Route 148 was transferred in the section between the junction with National Route 188 and the border with the Province of Córdoba, marked in green on the map. In 2001, Governor

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (born 25 July 1947) is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorg ...

put out to tender the work to convert Route 148 into a highway through Plan Mil, which will allow the construction of another 175 kilometers of highway between the cities of Villa Mercedes and Merlo, on the border with Córdoba. The old route in the province of San Luis currently corresponds to Provincial Route 55, while in the Province of La Pampa there is currently Provincial Route 105 (only paved in the north of the province).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:National Route 148 (Argentina) National roads in Córdoba Province, Argentina