Classic route
Tren de la Muerte
Santa Cruz → Puerto Quijarro · Bolivia
Bolivia’s notorious “Death Train” rattles east from Santa Cruz through Jesuit mission country and the Chiquitano dry forest to the Brazilian frontier.
Stations
- 0 kmSanta Cruz de la Sierra
- 265 kmSan José de Chiquitos
- 399 kmRoboré
- 536 kmEl Carmen Rivero Torrez
- 638 kmPuerto Quijarro
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8262149 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ferroviaria Oriental — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Tren de la Muerte?
The Tren de la Muerte runs 650 km from Santa Cruz to Puerto Quijarro.
How long does the Tren de la Muerte take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 16 h for the 650 km. That is an average of 41 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 60 km/h.
Who runs the Tren de la Muerte?
Ferroviaria Oriental.
How old is the Tren de la Muerte?
The line has been in service since 1955. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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