Argentina/Highways

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Feature : Argentina/Highways

Description

Normalization of roads within Argentina

Group

Highways in Argentina

Tags

highway=* maxspeed=* surface=* smoothness=* lanes=* shoulder=*

Circulation Ways

Current ranking

Effective since 05/2018.

Urban ways

Kind	Tag	Render	Description
Motorways	highway=motorway
Trunk avenue with sides roads	highway=trunk		They are trunk avenues (see below). They have streets on the sides that allow to differentiate local traffic, also prevents direct access from neighbors. It usually has crossings every certain number of streets, traffic lights and sometimes exits. They are usually continuations of motorways. They usually have a maximum speed greater than 60. Example: Av. 9 de Julio (CABA), 3 de Abril/Ferre/Independencia (Corrientes).
Trunk avenue	highway=primary		They are the main avenues. They completely cross the city, most of it, or are ring roads. They serve to leave the city. They are usually part or continuation of a trunk highway. They are wide, more than 2 lanes of traffic per hand, wide distance between the construction lines. Use in cities with 10,000 inhabitants or more. They usually have a maximum speed greater than 60.
Avenue	highway=secondary		Paved avenues in general. Wide avenue, although they may have only one lane per hand, wide distance between the construction lines. Use in cities with 2,000 inhabitants or more. They generally have a maximum speed of 60.
Little avenues	highway=tertiary		They are short sections of avenues without relevance that do not lead anywhere in particular. Wide avenue, wide distance between the construction lines. The maximum length is 500 meters. They have little use. At least one of its extremes does not reach any place or path of importance. They are paved.
Unpaved avenues	highway=tertiary		Wide avenue, wide distance between the construction lines. They are unpaved. They have the traffic of an avenue. They connect places that do not have paved accesses. In case of low traffic or low relevance, it will be tag as residential.
Main streets	highway=tertiary		They are streets that function as avenues. They have the same width as a normal street, impossible to widen without expropriating. They connect parts of the city, where there are no fast avenues: one or more residential areas with an avenue, route or motorway. They can be part of a route. They can be the natural continuation of an avenue. They may have preference of passage or traffic lights with green wave. Always paved. Maximum speed of 40. They have a lot of traffic (as an avenue), and commercial activity. The use of tertiary in the city should be chosen carefully, it is preferable to be carried out by local mapping experts. Avoid excessive use in central areas, in cities with many avenues (for example, CABA, La Plata), it is preferable to use it only in specific cases. Avoid using on paved streets within neighborhoods with dirt roads unless it really is a trunk avenue that connects with the rest of the city.
Streets in general	highway=residential		Almost all the streets. Maximum speed of 40 or less.
Semi-pedestrian streets or closed neighborhoods.	highway=living_street		Known as streets of coexistence in other countries. Maximum speed of 10 or 20. They usually have paving_stones surface. In closed neighborhoods add: access=private
Pedestrian streets	highway=pedestrian		They are wide pedestrian paths that at one time were streets (eg Florida Street, CABA).
Pedestrian paths	highway=footway

Rural ways

Motorways or Dual carriageway
Kind	Tag	Render	Description
Motorways	highway=motorway		They have no crosses at the level of any kind. Both paths physically separated. Minimum 2 lanes per road. They have no traffic lights. The inhabitants of the side do not have direct access. Inputs and outputs in parallel. Maximum speeds between 80 and 130.
Dual carriageway	highway=trunk		Add motorroad=yes. They can have level crossings, traffic lights or with roundabouts. Both paths physically separated. Minimum 2 lanes per road. The inhabitants of the side do not have direct access. Inputs and outputs in parallel. Maximum speeds between 60 and 130.

Routes
General description	The inhabitants of the side do have direct access. They may or may not have a central separator. Level crossings with or without traffic lights.
Kind	Tag	Render	Description
Safe or multi-lanes routes	highway=trunk		3 or more lanes in total. Paved. Forbidden to occupy opposite lanes to pass.
High traffic paved	highway=trunk
Main access to a town with more than 45,000 inhabitants.	highway=trunk		Paved. 2 lanes in total.
Parallel trunk	highway=primary		Paved. Forgotten by motorway or dual carriageway new parallel.
Paved medium traffic	highway=primary		Paved.
Main access to town between 10,000 and 45,000 inhabitants	highway=primary		Paved.
Low traffic paved	highway=secondary		Paved.
Main access to town between 2,000 and 10,000 inhabitants	highway=secondary		Paved.
Access to towns with less than 2000 inhabitants	highway=tertiary		Paved.
Unpaved	highway=tertiary		Paved.

Other Paths
Kind	Tag	Render	Description
Rural or neighborhood roads	highway=unclassified
Paths in fields	highway=track
Pedestrian paths	highway=footway

For a detailed explanation follow the urban rural reference links, where you can also ask any questions about this classification.

General concepts

• Motorways or dual carriageway: Both directions of movement must be drawn separately.
• National Routes: + ref=* (Eg RN7)
• Provincial Routes:+ ref=* (Ej. RP7)
• Links / Ramps (highway=*_link): They do not carry ref=* or name=*. They can take destination=* and its variants to indicate where that ramp leads.
• Service highway (highway=service): Entrance to service stations, parking lots, beach, camping, industrial park.
• If possible complete: Maximum speed (maxspeed=*), lanes (lanes=*), surface (surface=*), bench (shoulder=*) and smoothness (smoothness=*).

It is worth clarifying that in Argentina no public body has jurisdiction over all roads. The Nation, provinces and municipalities can organize their own hierarchies that are not consistent with each other, or directly dispense with categorization. For this reason it was necessary to put together a hierarchy scheme.
The principal director for the hierarchy is the amount of traffic, to put it in concrete terms, in general a highway has more traffic than a paved two-lane route, and is more than a secondary land route. In the absence of a comprehensive statistics of the entire country, the classification "traffic" of a road was approached through other parameters. However, the final result is an approximation, always being subject to review by the community, which can obviate these suggestions by consensus, especially when the suggestions are ambiguous regarding the hierarchy of a route. It is noteworthy that the dimensions of our country and the coexistence of densely populated areas with large unpopulated areas have certain appreciations about the importance of a route according to the region.

Finally, it should be noted that it is not necessary for a road to have the same hierarchy in its entirety.

The 2-lane trunk routes are generally those that link the cities of more than 50 thousand inhabitants with Buenos Aires or a nearby regional capital. The regional capitals are in general the provincial capitals, except Rawson, Río Gallegos and Viedma, to which Rosario joins. They are also links of the great cities of the country to each other, routes that are not agglomerated of at least 500,000 inhabitants to each other up to 1000 km, or cities of between 200 thousand and 500,000 with cities of the same rank or more. up to 500 km And, finally, the main links with neighboring countries, those that according to this list have more than 500,000 annual income and departures.

The trunk routes usually attract the population, finding many localities and services in its route.

The primary routes are those that link cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants with their regional head or Buenos Aires, or cities of more than 10,000 relatively nearby inhabitants. This definition of size and proximity can vary by province, since in less populated provinces or with less links the cut will be lower.

The paved tertiary routes are only those small sections, since they extend to several villages and begin to be the obligatory route of rural areas boosting the traffic of the same.

Asphalt is a great flow motivator, a paved dirt road adds traffic almost immediately. If you also link important cities, this route can go from tertiary to primary.

Route network

Main article: Key:network

The route networks must be labeled network=AR:=* as indicated below.

Kind	Tag
National Routes	network=AR:national
Provincial Routes	network=AR:provincial
Secondary Provincial Routes	network=AR:provincial:secondary

Discussion in the forum.

Speed limits

Main article: ES:Key:maxspeed

To specify the maximum legal speed, you have to use maxspeed=*.

Law 24.449 establishes in its article 51 the maximum speeds that vehicles that circulate on public roads must respect. These maximum speeds must be respected, unless there is a road sign indicating otherwise (that is, altering it in more or less, at the maximum speed).

Table of maximum and minimum speeds in Argentina (under construction).

Street names

Main article: ES:Names

Some considerations about street names:

• Write them only in capital letters (Example: Manuel Belgrano)
• Include accents and special characters.
• Words in usual order (do not put "Perón Juan Domingo")
• Without any type of abbreviations.

Full names such as "Domingo Faustino Sarmiento" are encouraged. Special case is that of Leandro N. Alem, who for an historical error was awarded the initial "N." (See Leandro Alem)

Street Numbering

We use Karlsruhe Schema (plugin for JOSM) that associates streets with interpolation lines.

See instructions on loading street numbers.

In this other tutorial, an even faster method is explained since it does not use relationships: OsmAlturas

Roundabouts

Main article: ES:Tag:junction=roundabout

If the traffic priority follows the classic of the roundabout - the one inside is a priority - see the page about Roundabout. If the circulation priority is different then it is junction=Circular.

Road signs

See Road signs in Argentina

Implementation

This table informs about the update of the new categories of roads by district. In this map you can consult graphically.

District	Updated
Buenos Aires
Catamarca
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Chaco	Yes
Chubut
Córdoba
Corrientes	Yes
Entre Ríos
Formosa
Jujuy
La Pampa
La Rioja
Mendoza
Misiones	Yes
Neuquén
Río Negro
Salta
San Juan	Yes
San Luis
Santa Cruz
Santa Fe	Yes, you need to complete routes with tertiary
Santiago del Estero
Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur
Tucumán

Chaco

The trunk routes are national 11, 16 and 89. The first is the main access to Resistencia (420 thousand) and Formosa (200 thousand) from Buenos Aires. Route 16 is the main access to Sáenz Peña (90 thousand) and the link between Resistencia and Corrientes; It is also the main link between Salta and Jujuy with almost the entire NEA. The 16 also has 55 km of highway. The 89 links the NEA with Tucumán, Santiago del Estero and Cuyo; It is also an alternative with Córdoba for Chaco and Formosa. With the mentioned routes, more than half of the cities with more than 10 thousand inhabitants are covered.

As primary routes are the RN95 in its entirety, as it serves as access to Villa Ángela (40 thousand), Castelli (27 thousand) and Tres Isletas (17 thousand); It also comes with pavement to the bridge over the Bermejo River, being one of the 3 links with the province of Formosa, and one of the two paved links with the Province of Santa Fe, which is why its classification is primary in its entirety. The RP90 as a whole is primary because it is the main link of San Martín (30 thousand) and also one of the three links with Formosa. Finally, the RP56, which is access to La Leonesa-Las Palmas (14 thousand), remain as primary; RP4 between RN16 and Villa Berthet, as the main access to Villa Berthet (10 thousand); the RP3 between RP90 and RN95, main access of Pampa del Indio (9 thousand) and closes ring with RN95; and the RP9, shortest link to reach Tres Isletas and Castelli from Resistencia.

The other paved routes are secondary: RP5 (link of Beautiful Field, 5 thousand); RP13 (link between RN89 and RN95, access of Villa Ángela from the west); RP6 (link between RN89, RN95 and RP4); RP4 between RN16 and RP3 (Pampa del Indio and Roca Presidency link with provincial west-central); RP7 between RP90 and RN16 (to 2018 under construction between RP9 and RN16, link of San Martín with the provincial center-west); RP9 between Castelli and Miraflores (main access to Miraflores, 5 thousand); RP3 between RN95 and Villa Río Bermejito (access to Villa Río Bermejito, 4 thousand)

Corrientes

The trunk routes are national 12, 14, 117 and 121. Route 12 copies the course of the Paraná River, concentrating 6 of the 14 locations with 9 thousand inhabitants or more. Route 14 copies the course of the Uruguay River to Santo Tomé where it begins to move away; On it are 4 of the 9 cities with more than 20 thousand inhabitants. The RN117 is the link between RN14 and the Paso de los Libres-Uruguayana bridge; RN121 links RN14 with the bridge between Santo Tome and San Borja.

The primary routes include national routes 120, 123 and 119, which are the main link of Mercedes (35 thousand), Curuzú Cuatiá (35 thousand) and Governor Virasoro (30 thousand), in the sections that join RN12 and RN14. The RN127 is one of the 3 paved links with Entre Ríos. The RP27 runs almost next to the paraná between the cities of Goya and Saladas, being the main link of Bella Vista (30 thousand) and Santa Lucia (12 thousand). The RN118 cuts to the bias the RN12 linking Saladas (13 thousand), San Miguel (5 thousand) and the accesses to Mburucuyá (7 thousand) and Concepción (4 thousand). Finally, RP13 is the only link of Mburucuyá, and RP5 is the primary link of San Luis del Palmar (10,000).

The secondary routes include the other paved routes: RP9 between San Luis del Palmar and Paso de la Patria (5,000); RP20 access to Itatí (7 thousand); RP5 from San Luis del Palmar to RN118, main access of Caá Catí (5 thousand); RP6 access to Concepcion; RN123 between RP27 and RN12 (access to July 9, 2 thousand); RP24 between RN12 and RN119 (access to Perugorría, 3 thousand); RP126 access to Willow (7 thousand); RP40 between Mercedes and Ciro Post; RP94 that copies the course of the Uruguay River from Sao Tome; RP71 access to Colonia Liebig's-Station Apostles (5 thousand); RP34 access to San Carlos (2 thousand).

The paved tertiary routes are: RP15 access to San Antonio de Itatí; RN122 access to Yapeyú; RP159 access to Pedro R. Fernández and RP38 access to Puerto Goya.

Formosa

The trunk routes are national 11 and A011. The first communicates the 2 main cities of the Province: Clorinda (50 thousand) and Formosa (220 thousand). The A011 is the connection between Clorinda and Asunción via raft.

The primary routes are the other national routes that cross it: 81, 86 and 95. The first is the large population axis, crossing the province transversely through the center; It has 7 of the 10 locations with more than 5,000 inhabitants. The 86 copies the Pilcomayo channel and is another axis of settlement with 7 towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants. The RP1 between El Colorado and RN11 joins 3 locations forming a small south corridor. National 95 and RP3 run from North to South joining the axes of RN81, RN86 and the Bermejo River.

The other paved routes are secondary: RP2 between Laguna Blanca and RN11 (access to Riacho He-He, 4 thousand); RP9 between RN95 and the Paraguay River; RP1 between RN11 and the Paraguay River, access to Herradura (2 thousand); RP23 between the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo River, access to the international bridge; RP20 between RP23 and RN95; and RP28 between RN81 (Las Lomitas) and RN86 (Posta Cambio Zalazar).

Misiones

The trunk routes are the national routes 12, 14 and 105. The first one follows the course of the Paraná River, the main axis of the Misiones settlement, access to Posadas (320 thousand) from the west and the North, and ends at the bridge towards Foz do Iguazú, one of the main border crossings; It also has 22 km of highway. The 14 crosses approximately halfway between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, until it ends at Bernardo de Irigoyen, another of the main border crossings with Brazil. The 105 links in 33 km 12 and 14 to be the main access to Posadas from Buenos Aires. Only two of the 16 towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants of Misiones are not communicated by any of these routes, 9 on RN12 and 5 on RN14, being two very marked areas of population.

The primary routes are those that link routes 12 and 14 to cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Going from South to North: RP4 (access to Alem), RP103 (access to Oberá), RP7 (access to Aristóbulo del Valle), RP11 (access to Dos de Mayo and San Vicente), RP17 (links Eldorado with Bernardo de Irigoyen ) and RN101 (access to Andresito, 12 thousand, and border crossings San Antonio, Integración and Capanema). Also the RP1, main access of Apostles (25 thousand). Another case is the RP103 between Oberá and RP2. The most populated section of the RP2 that goes from San Javier to El Soberbio closes the list; RP2 copies the course of the Uruguay River forming a population axis parallel to RN12 and RN14 but less intense.

The other paved routes are secondary: RP1 from Apostles to Azara (3 thousand); RP2 from Azara to Corrientes limit; RP10 from Apostles to Concepción de la Sierra (6 thousand); RP2 from Concepción to San Javier; RP3 from RN12 to Cerro Azul; RP225 from San Martín to Alem; RP4 from Alem to RP2; RP215 and RP209 from RP4 to RP2; RP6 from Corpus (2 thousand) to Campo Viera; RP5 from RP6 to Panambí; RP223 from RN12 to RP7; RP8 from Campo Grande to RP2 through Twenty-five of May (4 thousand); RP9 from Villa Salto Encantado to May 25; RP13 from San Vicente to El Soberbio; RP221 from RP13 to RP2; RP2 from El Soberbio to Saltos del Moconá; RP20 from San Pedro to Pozo Azul; RP27 from San Pedro to Paraíso (border crossing); RP19 from Wanda to bridge over San Antonio River (border crossing); RP24 access to Step Integration from RN101.

Tertiary paved routes: RP30 (access to Arroyo del Medio); RP211 (access to Dos Arroyos); RP220 (access to Salto Encantado Park).

San Juan

The motorways are Avenida Circunvalación (A014) and the national route 40 towards the South that takes the name of Acceso Sur, from the A014 to the 8th Street (RP179).

The trunk routes are national 20, 141 and 40 to the south. The first is the main access to San Juan (495 thousand) from Buenos Aires and Córdoba, after passing through San Luis (476 thousand). Route 40 to the south links with Mendoza and Patagonia, currently (2019) is in the process of transformation by motorway to the city of Mendoza. While 141 is the best to link with La Rioja (312 thousand) and the north of the country.

As primary routes are the RN40 to the north in its entirety, since it serves as access to San José de Jáchal (21 thousand), it is also fully paved and is one of the links with the province of La Rioja, reason for the which classification is primary in its entirety. The RN150 is primary from San José de Jáchal to La Rioja since it is the main connection of this city with Córdoba, passing through Chamical (13 thousand). The RP7, is a parallel avenue to the RN40, links the city of San Juan with the municipalities of Rawson (114 thousand) and Pocito (41 thousand). The RP19 and RP93 link the city with the departments of Chimbas (87 thousand) and Albardón (24 thousand). The RP203 (Avenida de Los Ríos) and Diagonal Sarmiento are the main accesses to the City of Caucete (38mil). RP104, is an avenue that allows you to reach Santa Lucia (43 thousand). RP75, only in the city of Albardón (24 thousand), since it is the main access to it. Finally, RP12 and RP14 connect the city of San Juan with the department of Rivadavia (83 thousand).

The secondary routes are: RN142 links RN20 with Costa de Araujo in Mendoza (2 thousand). RP12 main access to Zonda (5 thousand) from the east and the RP38 from the north, this route also serves to link with Ullum (5 thousand), after joining RP89, from the north. While Ullum is reached from the city by RP60. RP319 allows entry to Media Agua (22 thousand) while, from Media Agua, connection to Caucete is achieved by RP162 and RP270. RP510 links the City of San Juan with the Fertile Valley (7 thousand). The RP75 is the main access, from the main village of Albardón, to Angaco (4 thousand) and from the city by RP1 and RP170. RP119, access to San Martín (10mil). RP170 and RP230 to Route 20 link San Martín and Angaco with Caucete. RP99 link Angaco with Chimbas. RN149, RP436 and RP412 link San Juan with Calingasta (2 thousand). RP436 and RN149 link San Juan with Rodeo (2 thousand). RN150 links Rodeo with Jáchal towards the east and with Chile towards the west, this classification is chosen for the international route since it is not paved in its entirety so the passage has little traffic and because it is only enabled in summer. RP155 access to July 9 (9 thousand) from the city of San Juan and RP182 links with Caucete.

The paved tertiary routes are: RN153 to Pedernal, RP295 access to Cochagual, RP430 access to Angualasto, RP49 connection Jáchal - Huaco, RP459 connection Jáchal - Tamberías, RP511 connection San Agustín de Valle Fértil - La Rioja. RP54 linking Ullum with Jáchal and RP412 from Calingasta to Villa Nueva.