Route 11 (Paraguay) Explained

Country:PRY
Type:National
Route:11
Alternate Name:Juana de Lara
Map:Mapa de la Ruta 11 de Paraguay.svg
Map Notes:PY11 highlighted in red.
Length Km:228
Direction A:West
Terminus A:Antequera
Junction: PY22 in San Pedro, SP
PY08 in Santa Rosa, SP
PY17 in Capitán Bado, AM
Direction B:East
Terminus B:Capitán Bado

National Route 11 (officially, PY11, simply known as Ruta Once) is a highway in Paraguay, which runs from Antequera to Capitán Bado.

Distances, cities and towns

The following table shows the distances traversed by National Route 11 in each different department, showing cities and towns that it passes by (or near).

DepartmentCitykmMileJunctions
San PedroAntequera0align=center 0
San Pedro21align=center 13 PY22
Nueva Germania60align=center 38
Santa Rosa del Aguaray87align=center 54 PY08
AmambayCapitán Bado228align=center 143 PY17

In their 2011 book of correspondence Five Years, authors Christian Kracht and David Woodard discuss traveling along Route 11 to and from Nueva Germania.[1] In Die Südharzreise, Woodard discusses Route 11 in comparison to Bundesautobahn 38 and U.S. Route 66.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Kracht, C., & Woodard, D., Five Years (Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011).
  2. Woodard, "Autobahn 38, Ruta XI, Route 666", in F. Fischer, Die Südharzreise (Berlin: SuKuLTuR, 2010), p. 83.