Mexican Federal Highway 40

Federal Highway 40 shield
Federal Highway 40
Carretera federal 40
Route information
Maintained by Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
Length1,145.4 km[1][2][3] (711.7 mi)
Major junctions
East end Fed. 2 in Reynosa
Major intersections Fed. 35 in General Bravo

Fed. 54 in Monterrey
Fed. 85 in Monterrey
Fed. 54 northeast of Ramos Arizpe[4]
Fed. 54 northeast of Ramos Arizpe
Fed. 54 / Fed. 57 in Saltillo
Fed. 40D in Puebla, Coahuila
Fed. 40D in La Paila, Coahuila
Fed. 40D in La Cuchilla, Coahuila
Fed. 30 in La Cuchilla
Fed. 40D in Matamoros, Coahuila
Fed. 30 in Torreón
Fed. 34 near Pedriceña, Durango
Fed. 49 in Cuencamé
Fed. 40D in Yerbanis
Fed. 40D in Cinco de Mayo, Durango
Fed. 45 in Cinco de Mayo
Fed. 23 / Fed. 45 in Durango
Fed. 40D in El Salto
Fed. 40D in Concordia, Sinaloa
[5]

Fed. 15D in Villa Unión[4]
West end Fed. 15 near Mazatlán
Location
CountryMexico
Highway system
Fed. 39 Fed. 41

Federal Highway 40, (Carretera Federal, Fed. 40) also called the Carretera Interoceánica (Interoceanic Highway), is a road beginning at Reynosa, Tamaulipas, just west of the Port of Brownsville, Texas, and ending at Fed. 15 in Villa Unión, Sinaloa, near Mazatlán and the Pacific coast. It is called Interoceanic as, once finished, the cities of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on the Gulf of Mexico and Mazatlán on the Pacific Ocean will be linked.

It passes through Monterrey, Nuevo León; Saltillo, Coahuila; Torreón; Gómez Palacio and Durango City. The Monterrey to Durango City section is a four-lane divided highway. The rest of the road is a two-lane undivided road.[citation needed] Parallel to this highway, in some sections, runs Fed. 40D, a four-lane restricted-access toll road.

The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on 13 May 2012 along the road outside the city of Monterrey.[6]

  1. ^ "Datos Viales de Durango" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  2. ^ "Datos Viales de Coahuila" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 5, 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  3. ^ "Datos Viales de Nuevo León" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 8–9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  4. ^ a b "Google Maps". Retrieved Feb 12, 2012.
  5. ^ "Datos Viales de Sinaloa" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. 2011. pp. 2–3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  6. ^ "Official: 49 bodies left on Reynosa-Monterrey highway". The Monitor. 13 May 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.