AARoads:Central America

Central America
Dedicated to the highways and roadways of Central America

Resources

• SIECA
  • MUTCD
• Route list (unofficial): [1], [2]
• Digital Library of Caribbean
• LANIC newspaper list

Belize

• Ministry (archived website, domain was hijacked)
• Belize News - not a news site but links to all the news sites
• Amandala tends to lean left
• Belize Times - run by PUP party
• Guardian - run by UDP party
• Reporter - neutral
• Colonial Guardian - to 1899 on British News Archive
• Channel 5 Belize
• San Pedro Sun
• Drivers Guide to Beautiful Belize - might be self-published

Guatemala

• Ministry
• Prensa Libre
• La Hora
• El Periodico (shut down in 2023)
• System map unfortunately not very readable - has mileages - thankfully there is the following
• Departmental maps (alternate link)
• crude route log
• NE2 notes from TravelMapping
• brief description of system - page 55

El Salvador

• Ministry
• route log, with departmental
• map
• press releases
• La Prensa Grafica
• El Salvador (this one was labeled as conservative)
• El Faro

Honduras

• La Tribuna
• La Prensa
• Tiempo
• MUTCD
  • page 86 - specific geology
• routelog

Nicaragua

Government has had issues since 2018

• 2017 log (there are versions up to 2020 but archive.org didn’t have working copies)
• La Prensa the newspaper where the people fled abroad
• Confidencial
• La Trinchera

Costa Rica

• Ministry (site got hit 2023 with ransomware)
• routelog
• GIS data
• Tico Times
• Nación (Google News Archive 1946-1991
• Diario Extra
• La República
• really old newspapers

Panama

• Ministry
  • MUTCD?
• Canal Record - Newspapers.com (1907-1915)
• La Prensa - Newspapers.com (Publishers Extra after 2016)
• Panama America
• Crítica
• El Siglo

Organization

Templates and categories for the Central America project

Country	ISO code	Module	Jctint	Jcttop	Category	Notes
Belize	BLZ	BLZ	{{BLZint}}	{{BLZinttop}}	Belize
Guatemala	GTM	GTM	{{GTMint}}	{{Jcttop}}	Guatemala
El Salvador	SLV	SLV	{{SLVint}}	{{SLVinttop}}	El Salvador
Honduras	HND	HND	{{HNDint}}	{{Jcttop}}	Honduras
Nicaragua	NIC	NIC	{{NICint}}	{{Jcttop}}	Nicaragua
Costa Rica	CRI	CRI	{{CRIint}}	{{CRIinttop}}	Costa Rica
Panama	PAN	PAN	{{PANint}}	{{Jcttop}}	Panama