Route 6 is a National Road in the South American Andean state of

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

Route description

Route 6 has a length of 976 kilometers and crosses almost the entire width of the country in a southeast–northwest direction. It begins in the Bolivian lowlands on the border to

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

and leads along almost the entire eastern Andean chain of the Cordillera Central to the eastern edge of the

Altiplano The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...

near

Oruro Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by populat ...

. The road crosses the Departments of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca,

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at a nominal . For centuries, it was the location o ...

and

, where it ends at Route 1. The entire route from Oruro to Padilla is or will be paved, the area to Monteagudo is still unpaved gravel or dirt track, from Monteagudo to Boyuibe the road is paved, from Boyuibe to the Paraguayan border it is in turn unpaved.

History

Route 6 is with Decree 25.134 of 21 August 1998 was declared part of the Bolivian trunk road network "Red Vial Fundamental" and at that time only included the 643 km section east of Sucre.lexivox.or
Decreto Supremo N° 25134, 21 de agosto de 1998
/ref>

References

Roads in Bolivia {{Bolivia-transport-stub