Mexican Federal Highway 2

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Mexican Federal Highway (carretera federal) No. 2 runs along the United States-Mexico border.

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[edit] Route description

The highway is divided into two discontinuous segments. The western segment begins in Tijuana, Baja California, and terminates at Porvenir, Chihuahua near Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The eastern segment begins at Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and continues to the Gulf of Mexico at Playa Lauro Villar, Tamaulipas near Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Between Tijuana and Mexicali, Baja California, and again between Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Matamoros, the route is bypassed by Mexican Federal Highway 2D, a four lane controlled access toll road referred to in Mexico as an autopista.

The highway passes through the border states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. The highway also has connecting access to every official port of entry into the United States with the exception of the international bridge between Ojinaga, Chihuahua, and Presidio, Texas, which is within the gap between the two highway segments. These ports of entry allow access from the highway to all four United States border states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. As a result, customs inspection stations are common along some sections of the highway.

Even if the highway were to be extended to join the two segments, the gap between the two is more directly crossed by traveling along Interstate 10 and U.S. Highway 90 in the United States due the course of the Rio Grande around the Big Bend region of Texas.

Federal highways in Mexico are generally designated with even numbers for East-West routes and odd numbers for North-South routes. Numerical designations usually ascend southward away from the U.S. border for East-West routes, and usually ascend eastward away from the Pacific Ocean for North-South routes. Therefore, Federal Highway 2, due to its proximity to the border, has the lowest possible even number designation, and intersecting North-South federal routes usually conform to this pattern.

[edit] Baja California

Between Mexicali and the Sonora state line, the route is a four lane divided highway. Elsewhere, it is a two lane roadway. The route includes a spur road to the airport at Mexicali.

[edit] Sonora

The route is a four lane divided highway between the Baja California state line and San Luís Río Colorado and again between Santa Ana and Imuris where the route is concurrent with Mexican Federal Highway 15. It is a two lane roadway elsewhere.

[edit] Chihuahua

The route is a two lane roadway throughout the state.

  • Los Mimbres – nearby connection to border between El Berrendo and Adobe Wells, New Mexico at New Mexico State Road 81
  • Janos – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 10
  • Ascención
  • Los Tríos – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 2 spur route – connection to border between Palomas and Columbus, New Mexico at New Mexico State Road 11
  • Jerónimo – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 2 spur route – connection to border at Santa Teresa, New Mexico and New Mexico State Road 136
  • Ciudad Juárez – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 45 – connection with border at El Paso, Texas and U.S. Highway 62 via Paso del Norte Bridge (southbound) and Stanton Street Bridge (northbound)
  • Ciudad Juárez – connection with border at El Paso and U.S. Highway 54 and unsigned Interstate 110 via Bridge of the Americas/Córdova Bridge
  • Zaragoza – connection with border at El Paso and Texas Farm to Market Road 659 via Zaragoza Bridge
  • Guadalupe – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 2 spur route – connection with border near Tornillo, Texas and Fabens, Texas at Farm to Market Road 1109 via Porfirio Parra Bridge
  • Praxedis G. Guerrero
  • Porvenir – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 2 spur route – connection with border at Fort Hancock and Farm to Market Road 1088 via Porvenir Bridge

[edit] Coahuila

The route is a four lane divided highway for a short portion outside Piedras Negras where the route is concurrent with Mexican Federal Highway 57. Elsewhere, it is a two lane road. The route includes short spur roads to the Ciudad Acuña airport and to a scenic overlook.

  • Ciudad Acuña – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 2 spur route – connection to border at Lake Amistad and Amistad Dam and Texas State Highway Spur 349
  • Ciudad Acuña – intersects Mexican Federal Highway 29 – connection to border at Del Rio, Texas and Texas State Highway Spur 239 via Ciudad Acuña-Del Rio International Bridge
  • Jiménez
  • Piedras Negras – intersects and briefly is concurrent with Mexican Federal Highway 57 – connects to border at Eagle Pass, Texas and U.S. Highway 57 via Camino Real International Bridge
  • Piedras Negras – connection to border at Eagle Pass and Farm to Market Road 1021 via Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras International Bridge I
  • Guerrero

[edit] Nuevo León

The route is a two lane roadway throughout the state.

[edit] Tamaulipas

The route is a four lane divided highway between Reynosa and Ciudad Rio Bravo as well as within Matamoros. It is a two lane roadway elsewhere. The route has a bypass route around Ciudad Camargo and airport spur routes at Nueva Ciudad Guerrero and Reynosa

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