The Brigadier Estanislao López Highway (AP 01) is a

highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...

in the

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

province of Santa Fe, linking the provincial capital Santa Fe and the city of

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...

. It runs north–south for 157 km (91 mi), roughly parallel to National Route 11. Named in honor of the 19th century ''

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'' and governor, Estanislao López, the highway was initiated by the Provincial Highway Bureau office during the tenure of Governor Aldo Tessio, and was built between 1964 and 1972. Provincial Law Nº 10.798, signed by Governor

Carlos Reutemann Carlos Alberto "Lole" Reutemann (12 April 1942 – 7 July 2021) was an Argentine racing driver and politician, who competed in Formula One from to and served as the Governor of Santa Fe from 1999 to 2003. Reutemann was runner-up in the Form ...

in 1993, privatized the highway's operations and maintenance, and redesignated it as a

toll road A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or ''Toll (fee), toll'') is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented to help recoup the costs of road construction and ...

under the management of AUFE.Juan Carlos Rima, Jorge Sánchez and Luis A. Yáñez: ''La vialidad argentina y la concesión por peaje de rutas nacionales''.

References

Provincial roads in Santa Fe Province Buildings and structures completed in 1964 {{santaFeAR-geo-stub