A Journey Through The Darién Gap: The World's Deadliest Jungle

Cogito June 20, 2024
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Use code cogito at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: https://incogni.com/cogito Spanning 30,000 kilometres from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Ushuaia in Argentina, the Pan-American Highway is the world’s longest road. It connects North and South America. Except….for a dense impenetrable jungle on the Panama-Colombia border. This is the Darién Gap. Known locally as El Tapón or the "The Plug", this is the only land bridge between the Americas. This 106 kilometres break in the Pan-American Highway of dense jungle is one of the last great untamed places on earth, one of the world’s most biodiverse places, an incredibly beautiful piece of nature, but to those passing through it is… "A nightmare with 1,001 demons" https://www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT MERCHANDISE teespring.com/stores/cogito-store SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18WBaLocml_VH2gSYMaqrBK5ug02dJkk93u4CjIQiZ3c/edit?usp=sharing Music by Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.com/creator Video/Images provided by Getty Images and Archive.org and Reuters and interview Courtesy of Michel Quiroz. Maps provided by maptiler/Geolayers

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