Trampoline of Death: The Terrifying Road That's Considered Colombia's Most Dangerous | The Weather Channel
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The road, which spans 45 miles from Mocoa to Colombia's San Francisco is one of the most dangerous in the world.

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Nicole Bonaccorso

May 27, 2022

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A photo is seen of Colombia’s most infamous road, Trampoline of Death, in Putumayo, Colombia, on May 25, 2022. (Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Only the daring trek Colombia's most infamous road, Trampoline of Death. The rugged route, also called "Trampolín del Diablo," or "The Devil's Trampoline," ranges from 1,968 feet above sea level to 9,186 feet above sea level between the Amazon rainforest and the Andes mountains in the country's Putumayo region, but that's the least frightening fact about the road.

The road, which spans 45 miles from Mocoa to Colombia's San Francisco is one of the most dangerous in the world. Rains cause frequent landslides and turn the unpaved, dusty single-lane into unstable mud. The road is only about 10 feet wide, and each half mile averages about 18 hair-raising curves. As if that wasn't enough, dense fog makes the trek even more dangerous. Numerous people have died driving the route, their cars plunging into the valleys below. According to dangerousroads.org, the death toll is in the hundreds, and there are shrines along the journey in memory of the lives lost.

Trampoline of Death was built in 1930 to transport forces during the Colombia-Peru war, NZHerald reported. But the treacherous conditions depleted the soldiers even before they made it to the battlefield.

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The road is pure wilderness, with very little evidence of human activity along the way, which calls some of the most adventurous travelers looking for the secluded views of mountains, rainforest and waterfalls.

Click through the slideshow above to see images of the terrifying Colombian route.

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