Caracas-La Guaira Highway

The Caracas-La Guaira highway is a 4-lane highway that connects Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to its principal port city of La Guaira, and was built between 1950 and 1953 at a cost of 3,500,000 dollars per km. The highway was designed as an alternative to the old and circuitous Carretera Vieja, and has a maximum degree of 6% and a minimum radius of 300m for its curves. The construction of the highway was a major engineering project that involved over 2,000 workers and was considered an engineering masterpiece at the time of its inauguration.learn more on wikipedia