Highways in Spain

The Spanish motorway (expressways) network is the third largest in the world by length,^[1] only after China and the United States. As of 2013, there are 16,583 km (10,304 mi) of High Capacity Roads^[2] (Sp. Vías de Gran Capacidad) in the country. There are two main types of such roads, autopistas and autovías, which historically differed in the strictness of the standards they are held up to.

Differences between autopista and autovía

The distinction between two kinds of high capacity roads is mainly a historical one, seldom with practical consequences for most but the oldest motorways. Both kinds are divided highways with full access control and at least two lanes per direction. General speed limits for both are mandated by the Spanish Traffic Law as 60–120 km/h (35–75 mph), though there are groups that ask for the latter to be raised to 140 km/h (85 mph).^[3] Specific limits may be imposed based on road, meteorologic or traffic conditions.

Autopistas are specifically reserved for automobile travel, so all vehicles not able to sustain at least 60 km/h (35 mph) are banned from them. Thus, they may not be an upgrade to an older road, since the Spanish legislation requires an alternate route to be provided for such vehicles. Many, but not all, autopistas are toll roads, which also mandates an alternate toll-free route (though not necessarily a freeway) under the Spanish laws. An example is the AP-2 toll autopista, which links Zaragoza with Barcelona through the Monegros desert. In this case, the alternative is the N-II, the national road that preceded the A-2 autovía.

On the other hand, autovías are usually (though not always) upgrades from older roads, and never toll roads. In general, slow vehicles like bicycles and agricultural machinery are allowed under certain restrictions so as to not disrupt the traffic excessively or cause any danger. Furthermore, an autovía will most likely follow the original road very closely, only deviating from it to avoid direct penetration into towns (which are looped around in variantes). Thus, the upgraded road usually serves as the base for one of the two directions of the new autovía, which means the turns can be steeper than in autopistas. All in all, an autovía:

Allows traffic banned from an autopista, like bicycles. However, if the autovía is built as a new road instead of an upgrade to an older one, this traffic may be banned too.
May have little to no shoulders, which are then marked with a solid line instead of the broken line of a transitable shoulder.
May have acceleration and deceleration lanes that are much shorter than those of autopistas.
May have tighter turns and steeper gradients than an autopista is allowed.
If space-constrained, it may even have bus stops on a service lane in the autovía itself, as opposed to requiring them to be placed on a service lane physically separated from the main road.

However, most of the situations listed here only apply to the oldest autovías, and mainly to the radial A-1 through A-6 plus the A-42 near their endpoints, which were the first to be twinned in the 60s into dual carriageways (with at-level intersections) and then were upgraded to limited-access freeways in the 70s-80s, keeping most of their old route unchanged except where the old national road ventured into towns. In those cases, the freeway would make a semi-loop called a variante around the town, leaving the old national road as the access between the freeway and the town. New autovías usually have perfectly normal acceleration and deceleration lanes, very safe turns and transitable shoulders. Thus, the practical difference between a "new" autovía and a generic autopista is mainly the frequency of exits, which is usually higher in an autovía - upgraded from an old road with many crosses - than in a new, purpose-designed autopista with fewer preconditions imposed on it.

The M-40 autopista is one of the beltways serving Madrid. It is one of the few non-toll autopistas of significant length.

The A-5 autovía near Navalcarnero, Madrid. Note the mostly nonexistent acceleration lane in the road joining from the bottom right.

Modern autovías such as the A-66 near Guillena, Seville, offer most, if not all, features that are required by an autopista.

State-managed motorways

Most of the high capacity roads in Spain are under the authority of the General Roads Directorate (Sp. Dirección General de Carreteras) of the Ministry of Public Works, a department of the central Government of Spain, with the exceptions of Navarre and the Basque Country, the only autonomous communities which have been transferred full powers over all roads in their territories. Usually, the DGC manages all road maintenance, but in the case of the tolled autopistas, the management is commonly delegated to the concessionaire company.

Traditionally, purpose-built autopistas or autovías were assigned names starting with A plus one or two numbers describing their general orientation, while upgraded autovías kept their original names. Thus, the freeway that is currently known as A-5 was still reported as N-V in road signs for years after the upgrade was completed, making it difficult for drivers to know in advance which roads had become autovías. However, in 2003 all Spanish motorways were uniformly renamed with the following criteria:

Interurban motorways are named "A-" plus two numbers, except for the six radial roads stemming from Madrid which are named A-1 through A-6. An exception to this naming rule is the radial autopistas R-2 through R-5
Beltways are named with a one or two letter code identifying the city they orbit, plus two digits indicative of the general distance. For example, the M-50 is further from the city of Madrid than the M-40.
City access motorways are named similarly to beltways, like TO-21 for a freeway leaving the A-40 towards Toledo.
Tolled roads add a "P" before the dash, and must be clearly identified as such in road signs.

All such names are posted in white letters on blue background, like: A-49 . Note that none of these naming and coloring requisites affect roads under the authority of the Autonomous Communities. For example, the A-8 road in the Basque Country is a tolled autopista, as are the C-16, C-32 and C-33 in Catalonia. Other communities such as Madrid do follow the convention, and have names as MP-203 for a tolled road and M-501 for a free autovía. Furthermore, roads under the authority of the Andalusian government also start with A, but they have longer numeric codes and different coloring.

Interurban motorways

Map of Spanish autovias and autopistas

The roads listed below form the backbone of the Spanish high capacity network, connecting all provincial capitals and other major towns and destinations. Until recently, the network suffered from a high radiality, which collapsed the several Madrid beltways and the roads into the city and region. Since the 2000s, an effort to improve the situation was made based on two actions:

Build a new set of radial autopistas (named R-n instead of A-n) complementary to the old radial autovías near Madrid. Such tolled autopistas would form a new system of accesses to the capital that merges with their autovía counterparts far from Madrid. The main advantage to these roads is that they allow true fast travel from the first kilometre, while the radial autovías near Madrid (among the oldest autovía stretches in Spain) frequently go through populations, have constant entries and exits and suffer several other conditions which both jam them and make their first kilometres limited to speeds well under the normal 120 km/h (75 mph) limit.
Invest heavily in de-radialization efforts that create true cross-country high-capacity axes without passing through Madrid. For example, the A-66 (Autovía Ruta de la Plata) which connects the southern Andalusia with the northwest area of the country, or the A-43 which will connect the western Extremadura region with the east of Spain.

Signal	Denomination	Itinerary^[4]
A-1	Autovía del Norte	Madrid (M-30, M-40) — Alcobendas/San Sebastián de los Reyes (M-12) — M-50 — El Molar (R-1) — Aranda de Duero (A-11) — Burgos West (BU-30) — AP-1 — Burgos Northeast (BU-30) — N-I/AP-1
R-1	Autopista Radial 1	Madrid (M-12) — † — M-50 — † — El Molar (A-1)
AP-1	Autopista del Norte	Burgos (A-1) — N-I/A-1 — Briviesca — Pancorbo — Miranda de Ebro (AP-68) — Armiñón (N-I/A-1)
A-2	Autovía del Nordeste	Madrid (M-30, M-40, M-22) — Coslada/San Fernando de Henares — Torrejón de Ardoz (M-50) — Alcalá de Henares (M-203/M-100) — Guadalajara (R-2) — Medinaceli (A-15) — Zaragoza (Z-40, A-68) — AP-2 Fraga — AP-2 — Lleida (A-22, LL-11) — Cervera (C-25) — Martorell (AP-7) — B-23 — L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (B-10) Tordera (C-32) — * — Caldes de Malavella — Fornells de la Selva — † — Girona — † — Figueres — † — France
R-2	Autopista Radial 2	Madrid (M-40)—M-50—Guadalajara A-2
AP-2	Autopista del Nordeste	Zaragoza—Lleida—El Vendrell
A-3	Autovía del Este	Madrid (M-30)—Atalaya del Cañavate—Valencia
R-3	Autopista Radial 3	Madrid (M-30)—Arganda del Rey (A-3)—*—Tarancón(A-3)
A-4	Autovía del Sur	Madrid (M-30)—Córdoba—Seville, Jerez de la Frontera—A-48
R-4	Autopista Radial 4	Madrid (M-50)—Aranjuez—Ocaña (A-4/A-40/AP-36)
AP-4	Autopista del Sur	Seville—Cádiz
A-5	Autovía del Suroeste	Madrid (M-30)—Talavera de la Reina—Navalmoral de la Mata(EX-A-1)—Trujillo(A-58)—Mérida—Badajoz—Portugal
R-5	Autopista Radial 5	Madrid (M-40)—Navalcarnero (A-5)
A-6	Autovía del Noroeste	Madrid—Villalba, Adanero—Tordesillas—Benavente—Lugo—A Coruña
AP-6	Autopista del Noroeste	Villalba—Adanero
A-7	Autovía del Mediterráneo	Puçol—Valencia—Silla, Crevillent—Murcia—Almería—Motril—Málaga—Algeciras
AP-7	Autopista del Mediterráneo	France—La Jonquera—Girona—Barcelona—Tarragona—Puçol, Silla—Alicante, Crevillent—Cartagena—Vera, Málaga—Guadiaro
A-8	Autovía del Cantábrico	Bilbao—Castro Urdiales—Laredo—Torrelavega—Llanes—Villaviciosa—Gijón—Avilés—Luarca—Navia—Ribadeo—Mondoñedo—Vilalba—Baamonde
AP-9	Autopista del Atlántico	Ferrol—A Coruña—Santiago—Pontevedra—Vigo—Tui (A-55)
A-11	Autovía del Duero	Soria––Aranda de Duero——Valladolid–Tordesillas—Toro—Zamora—*—Portugal
A-12	Autovía del Camino de Santiago	Pamplona—Logroño—*—Burgos
A-13	Autovía A-13	Acceso Sureste-Nordeste de Logroño—*—Soria
A-14	Autovía A-14	Lleida——Vielha——France
A-15	Autovía de Navarra	Medinaceli—Soria—*—Tudela—Tafalla-Pamplona—Irurtzun—Villabona-Andoain-Hernani-Donostia/San Sebastián
A-21	Autovía del Pirineo	Pamplona—*—Jaca
A-22	Autovía Huesca-Lleida	Lleida—Monzón—Barbastro—*—Huesca
A-23	Autovía Mudéjar	Sagunto—Teruel—Zaragoza—Huesca——Somport——France
A-24	Autovía Daroca-Burgos	Daroca——Calatayud——Soria—*—Burgos
A-25	Autovía A-25	Alcolea—Monreal
A-26	Autovía del Eje Pirenaico	Besalú—Olot
A-27	Autovía Tarragona-Lleida	Tarragona—*—Montblanc
A-28	Autovía de la Alcarria	Guadalajara—Tarancón
A-30	Autovía de Murcia	Albacete (A-31)—Murcia—Cartagena
A-31	Autovía de Alicante	Atalaya del Cañavate (A-3)—La Roda—Albacete—Almansa—Alicante
A-32	Autovía Linares-Albacete	Bailén——Linares——Albacete
A-33	Autovía Cieza-Font de la Figuera	Cieza—Jumilla——Yecla——Font de la Figuera
A-34	Autovía A-34	L'Hospitalet de l'Infant—*—Vila-Seca
A-35	Autovía Almansa-Xàtiva	Almansa (A-31)—Xàtiva (A-7)
AP-36	Autopista Ocaña-La Roda	Ocaña (A-4/R-4)—Quintanar de la Orden—La Roda (A-31)
AP-37	Autopista Alicante-Murcia	Alicante—Murcia
A-40	Autovía de Castilla-La Mancha	Ávila——Maqueda—Toledo——Ocaña—Tarancón—Cuenca—*—Teruel
AP-41	Autopista AP-41	Madrid (R-5)—Toledo, Almadén—*—Espiel
A-42	Autovía de Toledo	Madrid—Toledo
A-43	Autovía Extremadura-Comunidad Valenciana	Mérida—*—Ciudad Real—Manzanares—Villarrobledo—Atalaya del Cañavate (A-3)
A-44	Autovía de Sierra Nevada	Bailén (A-4)—Jaén—Granada—Motril (A-7)
A-45	Autovía de Málaga	Córdoba (A-4)—Antequera—Málaga (A-7)
AP-46	Autopista AP-46	Puerto de las Pedrizas (A-45)—Málaga (A-7)
A-48	Autovía A-48	Cádiz—Algeciras
A-49	Autovía del Quinto Centenario	Seville—Huelva—Ayamonte—Portugal
A-50	Autovía de la Cultura	Ávila–Salamanca
AP-51	Conexión Ávila	Villacastín (AP-6)–Ávila
A-52	Autovía de las Rías Bajas	Benavente–Ourense–O Porriño (A-55)
AP-53	Autopista Central Gallega	Ourense–Santiago
A-54	Autovía A-54	Lugo–*–Santiago
A-55	Autovía del Atlántico	Vigo–O Porriño–Tui–Portugal
A-56	Autovía A-56	Guntín de Pallares–*–Ourense
A-57	Autovía A-57	A Cañiza–*–Pontevedra
A-58	Autovía Trujillo - Cáceres	Trujillo (A-5)–Cáceres
A-59	Autovía A-59	—
A-60	Autovía A-60	Valladolid–*–León
AP-61	Conexión Segovia	San Rafael (AP-6)–Segovia
A-62	Autovía de Castilla	Burgos–Valladolid–Salamanca–Fuentes de Oñoro–Portugal
A-63	Autovía A-63	Oviedo–La Espina
A-64	Autovía A-64	Villaviciosa–Oviedo
A-65	Autovía A-65	Benavente–*–Palencia
A-66	Autovía Ruta de la Plata	Northern span: Gijón (A-8) — AS-II — Oviedo (A-66a, A-63) — AP-66/N-630 Southern span: La Robla (N-630) — † — León (AP-66/AP-71, A-231) — Benavente (A-52/A-6) — Zamora (A-11) — Salamanca (A-62) — Plasencia (EX-A1) — Cáceres — Mérida (A-5) — Seville (SE-30)
AP-66	Autopista Ruta de la Plata	Campomanes (A-66/N-630) — León (A-66/AP-71)
A-67	Autovía Cantabria-Meseta	Santander–Torrelavega–Reinosa—Aguilar de Campóo—Palencia–Venta de Baños
AP-68	Autopista Vasco-aragonesa	Bilbao–Miranda de Ebro-Logroño–Tudela-Zaragoza
AP-69	Autopista Dos Mares	Cantabria––Pancorbo––Haro
AP-71	Autopista León - Astorga	León (A-66/AP-66/LE-30)–Astorga (A-6)
A-72	Autovía A-72	Monforte de Lemos–*–Chantada
A-73	Autovía A-73	Burgos–*–Aguilar de Campoo
A-74	Autovía A-74	Almadén–*–Autovía A-43
A-75	Autovía Verín - Frontera Portuguesa	Verín (A-52)–Portugal
A-76	Autovía A-76	Ponferrada–*–Ourense
A-78	Autovía A-78	Crevillent–Elche
A-79	Autovía A-79	Alicante–Elche
A-80	Autovía del Sella	Ribadesella–*–Cangas de Onís
A-91	Autovía A-91	Puerto Lumbreras–Vélez Rubio

*: in construction — †: planned

Beltways, city accesses and urban highways

Most beltways, full or partial, have originated from the upgrading of one or several roads reaching the town to the autovía level, as the several variantes looping around the town were joined in a single beltway that received a new naming such as TO-20 or Z-40. The list below only contains roads that are recognized as autovías or autopistas for at least part of its length, thus disqualifying urban arteries with at-grade intersections or unrestricted direct access to the main lanes, which are better represented by the dual carriageway concept.

Region	Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
A Coruña	AC-10	Urban highway	Autovía AC-10	AC-11—AC-12
	AC-11	Urban highway	Autovía AC-11	Avda. Alfonso Molina
	AC-12	Access road	Autovía AC-12	San Pedro de Nos (N-VI)—A Coruña docks
	AC-14	Access road	Southern access from A-6	A-6—A Coruña
Alicante	A-70	Partial beltway	Circunvalacion de Alicante	Campello (AP-7)—Elche (A-7)
Alicante	A-77	Access road	North east route to Alicante	Alicante (A-70)—A-7
Almería	AL-12	Access road	Eastern access to Almería	El Toyo (A-7)—Airport—Almería
Almería	AL-14	Access road	Almería docks access	A-7—Almería docks
Ávila	A-51	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Ávila	AP-51—N-110
Avilés	AI-81	Access road	Eastern access to Avilés	A-8—Avilés
Barcelona	B-10	Urban highway	Ronda Litoral	—
	B-20	Urban highway	Ronda de Dalt	—
	B-21	Access road	Second access to Barcelona Airport	*
	B-22	Access road	Access to Barcelona Airport	C-32—C-31—Barcelona Airport
	B-23	Access road	Autovía B-23	Molins de Rei (AP-2, AP-7)—B-20—Avda. Diagonal
	B-24	Access road	Autovía B-24	Vallirana (N-340)—Molins de Rei (A-2)
	B-30	Urban highway	Calzadas laterales AP-7	Molins de Rei (A-2)—C-58
	B-40	Partial beltway	Autovía Orbital de Barcelona	Abrera (AP-7)—La Roca del Vallés (C-60)
Burgos	BU-11	Access road	Autovía BU-11	A-1,BU-30—Burgos
Burgos	BU-30	Beltway	Circunvalación de Burgos	A-1 Madrid—A-62—A-231—*—N-623—A-1 Vitoria—AP-1
Cádiz	CA-30	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Jerez de la Frontera	Cádiz Airport (A-4)—A-480—N-IVa—*—A-381
	CA-31	Access road	Northern access to El Puerto de Santa María	A-4—El Puerto de Santa María
	CA-32	Access road	Southern access to El Puerto de Santa María	AP-4—El Puerto de Santa María
	CA-33	Access road	Autovía CA-33	Cádiz—San Fernando (A-4, A-48)
	CA-34	Access road	Autovía CA-34	San Roque (A-7)—La Línea de la Concepción—Gibraltar
	CA-35	Access road	Autovía CA-35	Puerto Real (AP-4)—Cádiz
Cartagena	CT-31	Access road	Western access to Cartagena	AP-7 (815)—Cartagena
	CT-32	Access road	Eastern access to Cartagena	A-30—AP-7 (800)
	CT-33	Access road	Access to Cartagena docks	A-30—Cartagena docks
	CT-34	Access road	Access to Escombreras	A-30—Escombreras Valley industrial area
Castellón de la Plana	CS-22	Access road	Access to Castellón docks	N-340—Castellón docks
Córdoba	CO-31	Partial beltway	Ronda Norte	N-432—A-4
Cuenca	CU-11	Access road	Autovía CU-11	A-40—Cuenca (Avda. República Argentina)
Elche	EL-20	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Elche	A-7—CV-85
Gijón	GJ-81	Access road	Autopista GJ-81	A-8—Calle de Sanz Crespo
Granada	GR-14	Access road	Western access to Motril port	A-7—Motril port
	GR-16	Access road	Eastern access to Motril port	A-7—Motril port
	GR-30	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Granada	A-44—A-92——N-432——GR-43——A-92G——A-44
	GR-43	Access road	North-western access to Granada	Pinos Puente (N-432)—*—Granada (A-92G)
Huelva	H-30	Partial beltway	Autovía H-30	N-441—H-31—Huelva docks (N-442)
Huelva	H-31	Access road	Autovía H-31	A-49—Huelva (H-30)
Jaén	J-12	Access road	Northern access to Jaén	A-316—Jaén
León	LE-12	Access road	Autovía LE-12	LE-30—LE-20
León	LE-30	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de León	A-66—N-630—LE-12
Lleida	LL-11	Access road	Eastern access to Lleida	A-2—Lleida (LL-12)
Lleida	LL-12	Access road	Southern access to Lleida	AP-2—Lleida (LL-11)
Logroño	LO-20	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Logroño	AP-68—N-232
Lugo	LU-11	Access road	Autovía LU-11	A-6—Lugo
Madrid	M-11	Access road	Western access to Barajas Airport	M-30—M-40—M-12—M-14
	M-12	Access road	Eje Aeropuerto	M-40—M-11—Airport terminal 4—A-1
	M-13	Access road	Autovía M-13	M-14—M-12
	M-14	Access road	Southern access to Barajas Airport	M-40—A-2—Airport terminals 1, 2, 3—M-13
	M-21	Access road	Autovía M-21	M-40—M-14—M-22—M-216—M-50
	M-23	Access road	Enlace O'Donnell—R-3	Madrid (O'Donnell St.)—M-30—R-3—M-40
	M-30 ^[5]	Urban highway	Calle 30	A-1/M-11—A-2—M-23—A-3—A-4—A-42—A-5—M-500—A-6—M-40—M-607—A-1/M-11
	M-31	Access road	Autovía M-31	M-40—M-45—M-50
	M-40	Beltway	Autopista de Circunvalación M-40	A-1—R-2—M-11—M-12—A-2/M-21/M-14—M-201—M-23/R-3—A-3—M-31—A-4—A-42—R-5—M-45—A-5—M-501—M-503—A-6—M-30—M-607—A-1
	M-50	Beltway	Autopista de Circunvalación M-50	A-1—R-2—M-111—A-2—M-21—M-206—M-45—R-3—A-3—M-31—M-301—A-4—R-4—A-42—M-409—M-407—R-5—M-506—A-5—M-501—M-503—M-505—A-6——M-607——A-1
Málaga	MA-21	Access road	Autovía de Torremolinos	Torremolinos (A-7) — Málaga Airport — Málaga
	MA-24	Access road	Eastern access to Málaga	Rincón de la Victoria (A-7) — N-340 — MA-113 — Málaga (A-7)
	MA-40	Partial beltway	Hiperronda de Málaga	Torremolinos (A-7) — * — A-404 — * — A-357 — * — AP-46 — * — Málaga (A-7)
Murcia	MU-30	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Murcia	Murcia (A-30) — N-340a — A-7 — C-415
Murcia	RM-1	Regional Road	Santomera-San Javier	San Javier AP-7 — RM-301 — Santomera RM-301 — A-30
Oviedo	O-11	Access road	Eastern access to Oviedo	A-66 — Oviedo (Ronda Sur)
	O-12	Access road	Western access to Oviedo	A-66 — Oviedo (León Avenue)
	A-66a	Access road	Autovía A-66a	A-66 — Oviedo (Gen. Elorza St.)
Palencia	P-11	Access road	Southern access to Palencia	A-67 — Palencia (Madrid Avenue)
Pontevedra	PO-10	Partial beltway	Autovía PO-10	PO-11 — AP-9 — N-550
Pontevedra	PO-11	Access road	Access to Marín	PO-10 — Marín (port)
Puertollano	PT-10	Access road	Northern access to Puertollano	A-41 — Puertollano
Salamanca	SA-11	Access road	Northern access to Salamanca	A-62/N-630 - N-620
Salamanca	SA-20	Partial beltway	Southern Ring of Salamanca	A-50 — A-66
Santander	S-10	Access road	Eastern access to Santander	A-8 — S-30 — CA-141 — N-635 — Santander Airport — A-67 — Santander (N-623, Castilla Avenue)
	S-20	Access road	Western access to Santander	A-67 — S-30 — Santander (Constitución Avenue)
	S-30	Beltway	Santander Bay Ronda	S-20 — A-67 — * — N-623 — * — S-10
Santiago de Compostela	SC-11	Access road	Southern access to Santiago	AP-53/AP-9 — SC-20
	SC-20	Urban highway	Autovía SC-20	N-550 — A-54 — AP-9 — SC-11
	SC-21	Access road	Access to Santiago Airport	A-54 — Santiago de Compostela Airport
Seville	SE-30	Urban highway	Ronda de circunvalación SE-30	A-4 (North) — A-92 — A-396 — N-IV — A-4 (South) — A-8058 — A-49 — SE-20
Seville	SE-40	Beltway	Ronda de circunvalación metropolitana	*
Soria	SO-20	Partial beltway	Autovía SO-20	A-15 — N-122 — N-234
Tarragona	T-11	Urban highway	Autovía Tarragona-Reus	Tarragona (N-241) — A-7 — AP-7 — Reus Airport — C-14/T-315 — Reus (T-310) — N-420a
Toledo	TO-20	Partial beltway	Circunvalación de Toledo	N-403a — TO-21 — A-42 — AP-41/TO-22
	TO-21	Access road	Western access to Toledo	A-40 (West) — TO-20
	TO-22	Access road	Eastern access to Toledo	TO-20 — AP-41
Valencia	V-11	Access road	Access to Valencia Airport	A-3 — Valencia Airport
	V-21	Access road	North-Eastern access to Valencia	A-7/V-23 — CV-32 — Valencia (Ronda Nord)
	V-23	Access road	Access to Sagunto	A-7/V-21 — A-23 — Sagunto
	V-30	Urban highway	Autovía V-30	CV-500 — V-31 — CV-36 — A-3 — CV-30 — V-11 — A-7
	V-31	Access road	Southern access to Valencia	A-7 — V-30
Valladolid	VA-11	Access road	Eastern access to Valladolid	A-11 — VA-30 — Valladolid (Soria Avenue)
	VA-21	Access road	Southern access to Valladolid	N-601 — VA-30 — VA-20 — Valladolid (Madrid Avenue)
	VA-20	Partial beltway	Ronda de Valladolid	—
	VA-30	Partial beltway	Autovía VA-30	*
Vigo	AP-9V	Access road	Access to Vigo from AP-9	AP-9 — Vigo
	VG-10	Urban highway	Primer cinturón	Castrelos — Bouzas terminal
	VG-20	Partial beltway	Autovía VG-20	VG-10 Navia - AG-57 - AP-9 Rebullon
Zamora	ZA-12	Access road	Eastern access to Zamora	A-11 (East) — Zamora (N-122)
Zaragoza	Z-32	Access road	Western access to Zaragoza	N-403a — TO-21 — A-42 — AP-41/TO-22
	Z-40	Beltway	Cuarto cinturón de Zaragoza	A-2 (West) — AP-68 — A-23 (North)/A-2 (East) — A-68 — A-23 (South) — A-2 (South)
	Z-50	Partial beltway	Quinto cinturón de Zaragoza	A-2 (East) — A-68 — *

*: under construction

Regional-managed motorways

The formation of the several Autonomous Communities in the early 1980s led to the transfer of many roads to the new regional authorities. Since then, several of those roads have been upgraded to motorway level in order to ensure the internal vertebration of the region, or to provide alternative high-capacity routes to those managed by the national government when those were inadequate or saturated. All of the old comarcal roads (C-nnn) comprising the secondary network were transferred to the Autonomous Communities, splitting them up as necessary; while the national roads (N-nnn) that formed the primary network were mostly kept by the State.

The level of control each community has over its road network varies: the Basque Country and Navarre have received the titularity of nearly all roads in their territories, while in other communities the regional network coexists with and complements the national one. Whatever the extension of the road network under its control, all communities have full powers over naming and identification of their roads, provided no name conflicts with a national road or a regional road of a neighbouring community.

Andalusia

The regional highway network of Andalusia is very extensive, as the territory itself spans nearly a fifth of Spain. There are no special codes for identifying highways: upgraded roads usually keep their name and sign color (orange, green or yellow). However, confusion sometimes arises due to the fact that most regional roads start with the letter A (for Andalucía), which is also used by the national government for highways.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
A-92	Interurban	Autovía A-92	Seville — Granada — Almería
A-92G	City access	Autovía A-92G	Santa Fe (A-92) — Granada
A-92M	Interurban	Autovía A-92M	Salinas industrial development (A-92) — Pedrizas pass (A-45/AP-46)
A-92N	Interurban	Autovía A-92N	Guadix (A-92) — Vélez-Rubio (A-91)
A-306	Interurban	Autovía A-306	El Carpio (A-4) — * — Torredonjimeno (A-316)
A-308	Interurban	Autovía A-308	Iznalloz (A-44) — * — Darro (A-92)
A-316 / A-318	Interurban	Autovía del Olivar	Úbeda — Baena — * — Jaén (A-44) — Martos — * — Lucena (A-45) — Estepa (A-92)
A-334	Interurban	Autovía del Almanzora	Purchena — * — Fines — Albox — El Cucador — * — A-7
A-357	Interurban	Autovía del Guadalhorce	Zalea — * — Casapalma — MA-40 — Málaga (A-7)
A-376	Interurban	Autovía A-376	Seville (SE-30) — Alcalá de Guadaira/Dos Hermanas — Utrera
A-381	Interurban	Autovía A-381	Jerez de la Frontera (AP-4) — Los Barrios (A-7)
A-382	Interurban	Autovía A-382	Jerez de la Frontera (AP-4) — Arcos de la Frontera
A-383	City access	Autovía del Higuerón	A-7 — La Línea de la Concepción
A-395	City access	Ronda Sur de Granada	A-44 — Granada
A-480	Interurban	Autovía A-480	Sanlúcar de Barrameda — Jerez de la Frontera (A-4)
A-483	Interurban	Autovía A-483	Bollullos Par del Condado (A-49) — Almonte
A-497	Interurban	Autovía A-497	Huelva — Punta Umbría
A-8057	Urban	Variante de Mairena	San Juan de Aznalfarache (A-8058) — Mairena
A-8058	Urban	Autovía A-8058	Seville (SE-30) — San Juan de Aznalfarache (A-8057)

*: planned/in construction

Aragon

The community of Aragon has only very recently started building its own highway network. The first span was opened to traffic just in 2008, and there are at least three more highways in study. Due to the limited financial capabilities of the Aragon regional government, many of them might be built as toll roads.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
ARA-A1	Partial beltway	Quinto cinturón de Zaragoza	N-II/AP-2 — A-68
ARA-AP2	Interurban	Autopista ARA-AP2^[6]	Cariñena (A-23) — † — A-2 — † — ARA-AP4 — † — Mallén (AP-68/N-232)
ARA-A3 / A-127	Interurban	Autovía ARA-A3	Gallur (AP-68/N-232) — † — Ejea de los Caballeros
ARA-AP4	Interurban	Autopista ARA-AP4	Tarazona (A-11) — † — ARA-AP2
A-131 / A-230	Interurban	Still unnamed^[7]	Huesca — † — Huesca-Pirineos Airport — † — Sariñena — † — Bujaraloz (AP-2/N-II)
A-130	Interurban	Still unnamed	Barbastro (A-22) — † — Ontiñena — † — Caspe (AP-2/N-II)

*: in construction — †: planned

Asturias

The highway network in the mountainous Principality of Asturias is severely limited by the complexity of its relief, with a dense network of river valleys in between ranges such as the Picos de Europa.

Vertebral Asturian motorways have identifiers in the style of national ones, that is, white text on blue background, while roads in process of upgrading keep their old nomenclature until the full route is completed. Such is the case, for example, with the AS-III, which is an upgrade of the AS-17. The prefix is always AS, and Roman numerals are used.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
AS-I	Interurban	Autovía minera	Mieres (A-66) — A-64 — Gijón (A-8)
AS-II	Interurban	Autovía industrial	Oviedo — AS-III — Gijón
AS-III / AS-17	Interurban	Autovía del Nalón	Avilés (A-8) — * — Llanera — AS-II — A-66
AS-117	City access	Autovía AS-117	AS-I — Langreo

*: planned/in construction

Balearic Islands

All of the roads in the Balearic Islands were transferred to the regional government when the Autonomous Community was formed, and several are now under the competence of the several Island Councils (Consell Insular). The prefix denotes the island, and the second letter (if any) is lowercase. Autopista identifiers are white on blue background, while twinned roads closer to the autovía category keep their identifiers.

The lack of highways in several islands should not be taken as a sign of underdevelopment: the road network is well kept, and where highways have not been deemed necessary, expressways are built for an easier upgrade.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary	C-733 — Ibiza Airport
Ma-1	Interurban	Eje de Poniente	Palma port — Peguera
Ma-13	Interurban	Eje Central	Palma (Ma-20) — Sa Pobla
Ma-15	Interurban	Desdoblamiento de Manacor	Palma (Ma-30) — Manacor
Ma-19	Interurban	Eje de Levante	Palma — Llucmajor
Ma-20	Beltway	Vía de Cintura	Ma-1 — Ma-13 — Ma-19

Basque Country

A special case together with Navarre, the Basque Country has received full powers over most roads in its territory, including the national roads that comprised the primary network, and nowadays only the AP-1 and the AP-68 are under the direct authority of the Spanish government as part of the Red de carreteras del Estado (National Road Network). Currently, roads are managed by the three Diputaciones Forales of the Basque provinces.

The fact that such transfer took place before the thorough renaming of national roads and highways in 2003 makes the naming of transferred "national" highways inconsistent with the national network: the A-1 is still called the N-I in the Basque Country, and the same identifier (A-8) applies to the tolled and toll-free parts of the Autopista del Cantábrico in Biscay. Furthermore, new highways built since then by the provinces have one of the following prefixes: A for Álava-Araba, BI for Biscay (Vizcaya-Bizkaia) or GI for Guipúzcoa-Gipuzkoa.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
AP-1	Interurban	Autopista de Vitoria a Irún por Eibar	Vitoria airport (N-622/N-624) — N-240 — Arrasate-Mondragón (GI-632) — Vergara-Bergara (GI-632, GI-627) — Eibar (joins AP-8 up to Irún)
A-8 AP-8	Interurban	Autopista del Cantábrico	Cantabria/Basque Country border — Bilbao (AP-68) — Eibar (AP-1) — San Sebastián-Donostia (GI-20 West) — Hernani (GI-131) — Rentería-Errenteria (GI-20 East) — Irún — Spain/France border (A63)
BI-30	Partial beltway	Variante Sur Metropolitana de Bilbao	A-8 — * — BI-636 — * — AP-68 — * — A-8
BI-631	Interurban	Autovía BI-631	Bilbao — Mungía
BI-636	Interurban	Corridor del Cadagua	Bilbao (A-8) — Gueñes
BI-637	Interurban	Autovía BI-637	Barakaldo (N-637) — Getxo
BI-644	Access road	Autovía BI-644	Santurtzi (A-8) — Bilbao port
GI-11	City access	Autovía GI-11	Lasarte-Oria (N-I) — GI-20
GI-20	Urban	Variante de Donostia-San Sebastián	AP-8 West — GI-11 — GI-21 — GI-636 — AP-8 East
GI-131	Interurban	Autovía del Urumea	Andoain (N-I) — * — Urnieta — AP-8 — San Sebastián-Donostia
GI-632	Interurban	Autovía GI-632	Vergara-Bergara (AP-1) — * — Zumarraga — Beasain (N-I)
N-I	Interurban	Autovía de Etxegarate/Autovía del Norte	Burgos/Álava border (A-1) — Vitoria-Gasteiz (N-622/N-240) — Álava/Navarre border (A-1), Navarre/Álava border (A-1) — Beasain (GI-632) — A-15 — Andoain (GI-131) — Lasarte-Oria (GI-11/AP-8)
N-102	City access	Western access to Vitoria/Gasteiz	N-I — Vitoria-Gasteiz
N-240	Interurban	Autovía N-240	Vitoria-Gasteiz (N-I) — AP-1 — * — Galdakao (A-8)
N-622	Interurban	Autovía de Altube	Vitoria-Gasteiz (N-I) — AP-1/N-624 — AP-68
N-624	Access road	Access to Vitoria Airport	AP-1/N-622 — Vitoria Airport
N-637	Urban	Asúa Valley corridor	Barakaldo (A-8) — BI-637 — BI-634 — Galdakao (A-8)

*: in construction — †: planned

Canary Islands

Following the example of the other insular community in Spain, all roads in the Canary Islands are under the authority of either the regional government or one of the several Island Councils (Cabildo Insular). The prefix denotes the island, and identifiers are usually white on blue background.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
FV-2	Interurban	Autovía FV-2	Puerto del Rosario — Fuerteventura Airport, Barranco del Vachuelo — Marabu
GC-1	Interurban & urban	Autopista GC-1	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria — GC-2 — GC-3 — Telde — Gran Canaria Airport — Arinaga — Maspalomas — Puerto de Mogán
GC-2	Interurban	Autopista GC-2	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (GC-1) — GC-20 — Bañaderos, Santa María de Guía — Gáldar
GC-3	Interurban	Autopista GC-3	Las Mesas (GC-300) — GC-23 — GC-31 — GC-4 — GC-1
GC-4	Interurban	Autovía GC-4	San Francisco de Paula (GC-3) — Monte Lentiscal
GC-23	Urban	Autovía GC-23	GC-2 — GC-3
GC-31	City access	Autovía GC-31	GC-3 — Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (GC-1)
LZ-2	Interurban	Autovía LZ-2	Arrecife — Lanzarote Airport
TF-1	Interurban	Autopista del Sur	Santa Cruz de Tenerife (TF-5) — TF-4 — TF-2 — Candelaria — Tenerife South Airport — Adeje
TF-2	Urban	Autopista TF-2	TF-5 — TF-1
TF-4	City access	Autovía TF-4	TF-1 — Santa Cruz de Tenerife
TF-5	Interurban	Autopista del Norte	Santa Cruz de Tenerife (TF-1) — TF-2 — San Cristóbal de la Laguna — Tenerife North Airport — Puerto de la Cruz
TF-11	Interurban	Autovía TF-11	Fishing docks — San Andrés

Castile-La Mancha

Another community that has recently started building its own high capacity road network, Castile-La Mancha has completed one autovía and has at least five more in varied states of advanced planning and building. In the flat La Mancha, relief does not usually require costly tunnels and bridges, though the region does contain several nature reserves including the Tablas de Daimiel National Park wetlands. Highway identifiers are white on blue background.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
CM-40	Partial beltway	Ronda Suroeste de Toledo	A-40 (West) — * — TO-21 — * — CM-42 — * — N-400
CM-41	Interurban	Autovía de La Sagra^[8]^[9]	Valmojado (A-5) — * — Illescas (A-42/AP-41) — * — Borox — * — Seseña (R-4/A-4) Borox — * — Añover de Tajo
CM-42	Interurban	Autovía de los Viñedos	Toledo (TO-20) — CM-40 — N-401 — Nambroca — Consuegra — Madridejos (A-4) — Alcázar de San Juan — Tomelloso (A-43)
CM-43	Interurban	Autovía de la Solana	Manzanares (A-4) — * — La Solana — † — Albacete (A-32)
CM-44	Interurban	Autovía del Júcar	Cuenca (A-40) — † — Motilla del Palancar (A-3) — † — Albacete (A-32)
CM-45	Interurban	Autovía IV Centenario^[9]^[10]	Ciudad Real (A-41) — * — Almagro — * — Valdepeñas (A-4) — † — Alcaraz (A-32)

*: in construction — †: planned

Castile and León

The largest community in Spain by land area, Castile and León has a dense road network, but until recently most of its highways had been part of the national system. The terrain is varied, from the plains of the Meseta to the rugosities of the Montes de León, and archeological remains abound. Regional highways are renamed to A-nnn, always with three digits to avoid clashes with the national network, but usually keeping the original number of the upgraded regional road CL-nnn. Identifiers are white on blue background.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
A-125	Interurban	Autovía A-125	La Bañeza (A-6) — * — Puebla de Sanabria (A-52) — † — Spain/Portugal border (N103)
A-231	Interurban	Autovía del Camino de Santiago	Burgos (BU-30/A-62) — Osorno (A-67) — Sahagún — León (A-66)
A-510	Interurban	Autovía A-510	Salamanca (SA-20) — * — Alba de Tormes
A-601	Interurban	Autovía de Pinares	Valladolid (VA-30) — Cuéllar — Segovia (N-110)
A-610	Interurban	Autovía A-610	Palencia (A-67) — Magaz de Pisuerga (A-62) — † — Aranda de Duero (A-1)
A-631	Interurban	Autovía de La Espina	Ponferrada (A-6) — * — Toreno — † — Villablino — † — Los Barrios de Luna (AP-66)

! A-629 | Interurban | Autovía de Las Merindades | Burgos (A-73) - Viarcayo - Viasana de Mena - (Bi-636) - Balmaseda - Bilbao

*: in construction — †: planned

Cantabria

The only community without a high-capacity network of its own, Cantabria is severely held back in such a development by a highly mountainous terrain that multiplies the cost of building any kind of expressway. Thus, its population is served by the national highway network supplemented by regional conventional roads.

Catalonia

The second most populated community in Spain, Catalonia has a thorough regional road network, with several highways managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Also, the state-owned highways previously known as A-16 through A-19 were transferred to the Catalan government and renamed according to the new regional guidelines enacted in 2004. Highway identifiers are white on blue background.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
C-14	Interurban	Autovía C-14	Reus (T-11) — Alcover
C-16 ^[11]	Interurban	Eix del Llobregat	Barcelona (Via Augusta/B-20) — Sant Cugat del Vallès (AP-7) — Rubí — Terrassa — Manresa (C-25) — Berga — † — Puigcerdá — † — France (N20)
C-17	Urban & interurban	Eix del Congost	Barcelona (Meridiana Avenue/B-20) — C-33/C-58 — Montcada — C-33/C-59 — Montmeló (C-33/AP-7 North) — Granollers — Vic (C-25) — Manlleu (C-37) — Torelló — * — Ripoll
C-25	Interurban	Eix Transversal	Cervera (A-2) — * — Manresa (C-16) — * — Vic (C-17) — Vic (C-25) — * — AP-7/Girona Airport — * — Riudellots de la Selva (A-2)
C-31	Interurban	Eix Costaner	Castelldefels (C-32) — Barcelona Airport — El Prat de Llobregat — L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (B-10) — Barcelona (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes) Barcelona (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes) — B-10 — Badalona — Montgat (C-32) Santa Cristina d'Aro (C-65) — Platja d'Aro — * — Palamós — Palafrugell
C-31B	Interurban	Autovía C-31B	Tarragona — Salou
C-31C	City access	Autovía C-31C	Sant Boi de Llobregat — El Prat de Llobregat (C-31)
C-31D	City access	Autopista C-31D	C-32 — Mataró (Porta Laietana)
C-32	Interurban	Corridor del Mediterrani	Autopista Pau Casals: El Vendrell (AP-7) — Calafell — Cunit — Vilanova i la Geltrú — Sitges — Castelldefels (C-31) — B-22 — L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (B-10/B-20) Autopista del Maresme: Montgat (C-31) — Mataró (C-31D/C-60) — Arenys de Mar — Sant Pol de Mar — Palafolls — Tordera (N-II) — † — Lloret de Mar — † — Tossa de Mar
C-33	Interurban	Access to Barcelona from AP-7	Barcelona (C-17/C-58) — Mollet del Vallés (C-17/C-59) — Montmeló (AP-7)
C-35	Interurban	Autovía C-35	Vidreres (AP-7/A-2) — Llagostera (C-65)
C-58	Interurban	Autopista del Vallès	Barcelona (B-10/B-20) — C-33 — Cerdanyola del Vallès — AP-7 — Sabadell Airport — Sabadell/Sant Quirze del Vallès — Terrassa (Vallès Avenue) — C-16
C-60	Interurban	Autovía C-60	Mataró (C-32) — La Roca del Vallès (AP-7)
C-65	Interurban	Autovia C-65	Santa Cristina d'Aro (C-31) — Llagostera (C-35) — † — Girona (A-2)
C-66	Interurban	Autovía C-66	Sarrià de Ter (AP-7) — Banyoles (C-31) — † — Besalú (A-26)
C-68	Interurban	Autovía C-68	Figueres (AP-7) — * — Roses

*: in construction — †: planned

Extremadura

A sparsely populated community, Extremadura has a terrain that can be considered favourable for a regional highway plan, as the interior is mostly flat. However, the fact that its northern and north-eastern borders are blocked by mountain ranges with typical elevations of 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) over the main mesa, combined with the mentioned demographics of the territory (Extremadura ranks the 5th community in Spain by land area, but only the 12th by population, and none of its cities reach 200,000 inhabitants) has traditionally limited the penetration of even the national highway network.

Nevertheless, the community is in an excellent position for connections between Spain and Portugal (the national highway A-5 reaches Portugal through Badajoz in Extremadura), and in the last decade, the regional government has revealed an ambitious plan that would create four to six regional highways. In addition to the vertebration of the Extremaduran territory, some of these roads are explicitly meant to provide alternative routes to the two national highways in the region (A-5 and A-66), establishing connections between them and an additional route to Portugal to the north of the current one.

It is the policy of the regional government to avoid twinning existing roads (and thus replacing them with the upgraded autovía), so instead all autovías are built from scratch even if they are parallel to the old road. All Extremaduran highways are currently named EX-An, with white identifiers on blue background. Some of them have branches named EX-An-Rm, which also have white-on-blue identifiers, but such branches need not be highways themselves even if they are built concurrently with the main road.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
EX-A1	Interurban	Autovía EX-A1	Navalmoral de la Mata (A-5) — Malpartida de Plasencia — Plasencia (A-66) — * — Coria — * — Moraleja — † — Spain/Portugal border (N103)
EX-A2	Interurban	Autovía EX-A2	Miajadas (A-5) — Don Benito (EX-A2-R1) — Villanueva de la Serena (EX-A2-R2)
EX-A3	Interurban	Autovía EX-A3	Zafra (A-66) — * — Jerez de los Caballeros
EX-A4	Interurban	Autovía EX-A4	Cáceres (A-66) — † — Badajoz (A-5)

*: in construction — †: planned

Galicia

Often compared to Scotland because of its orographic similarities, Galicia is a hilly but not mountainous region with an approximate population of 3M people. Its highway network mainly functions as the terminal part of trips, since the vertebral function is mainly coped by the national system. Identifiers start with AG (for Autovía/Autoestrada galega) and are white on blue background.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
AG-11	Interurban	Autovía del Barbanza	Rianxo (AP-9) — Boiro — Ribeira
AG-41	Interurban	Autovía del Salnés	Meis (AP-9) — Sanxenxo — * — O Grove
AG-51	Access road	Access to PLISAN	A-52 — † — Salvaterra-As Neves Industrial and Logistic Platform (PLISAN, Plataforma Logístico-Industrial Salvaterra-As Neves)
AG-52	Interurban	Autovía AG-52	Tui (A-55) — † — Tomiño
AG-53	Interurban	Autoestrada Central Galega	Dozón (AP-53) — Cea — Maside (AG-54) — A-52
AG-54	Access road	Access to O Carballiño	Maside (AG-53) — O Carballiño
AG-55	Interurban	Autoestrada da Costa da Morte	A Coruña — Arteixo (A-6) — Laracha — Carballo — † — Fisterra
AG-56	Interurban	Autovía AG-56	Santiago de Compostela (AP-9) — Brión — Gundín — * — Noia
AG-57	Interurban	Autoestrada do Val Miñor	Vigo (VG-20) — AG-57N — Ramallosa — * — Baiona
AG-57N	Access road	Autovía AG-57N	AG-57 — Nigrán
AG-58	Access road	Autovía AG-58	AG-59 — Cacheiras
AG-59	Access road	Autovía AG-59	Santiago de Compostela (AP-53) — AG-58 — Raris — * — Pontevea — * — A Estrada
AG-64	Interurban	Autovía Ferrol - Vilalba	Ferrol — Rio do Pozo industrial development — Narón — As Pontes de García Rodríguez — Vilalba (A-8)

*: in construction — †: planned

La Rioja

The small and mountainous region of La Rioja has just started planning regional highways of its own. After an initial plan to upgrade the LR-134 road (Calahorra—Arnedo) was downgraded to a simple twinning with roundabout intersections, a study is now being drawn to build at least a true highway connecting the national highways AP-68 and A-12, with a possible projection into the south of the community. Another highway would provide access from the regional capital beltway to the tolled AP-68.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
LR-111	Interurban	Autovía LR-111	Haro (AP-68) — † — Santo Domingo de la Calzada (A-12) — † — Ezcaray
LR-250	Access road	Autovía LR-250	Logroño (LO-20+A-12) — † — Villamediana de Iregua (AP-68)

*: in construction — †: planned

Madrid

The region containing the capital city of Spain, Madrid ranks the 3rd community by population, and is by far the most densely populated. Even though it contains the centre of the national radial highway system, the Madrid regional government (traditionally more committed to the expansion of the Metro system) has dedicated vast resources during the last decade to upgrade the regional road network and, where necessary, create new high-capacity roads that both complement the national system and vertebrate zones of the community not covered by the national network.

Madrid regional highways have codes that are no different from other regional roads, with orange, green and yellow backgrounds, even for newly built highways like the M-45. Usually, the upgrade of long roads, twinned or not, to the motorway level is not undertaken at once, so the list below only contains the itinerary for the spans that actually run as highways or have been planned to. For example, the M-506 is "broken" at its connection with the M-419 and the A-42 by a succession of roundabouts until the link with the R-4, so in the list it is separated in two highway stretches.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
M-45	Partial beltway	Autopista M-45	Madrid/Leganés (M-40) — R-5 — A-42/M-402 — A-4 — M-301 — M-31 — A-3 — R-3 — Coslada — San Fernando de Henares (M-206) — M-50
M-61	Partial beltway	Autopista M-61^[12]	San Sebastián de los Reyes (M-50/A-1) — † — Alcobendas (M-607/M-616) — † — Las Rozas de Madrid (M-50/A-6)
M-100	Interurban	Autovía M-100^[13]	San Sebastián de los Reyes (A-1) — † — M-106/M-111 — † — Cobeña — † — Daganzo de Arriba — * — R-2 — A-2/M-203
M-121	Interurban	Autovía M-121^[14]	Alcalá de Henares (A-2) — † — Meco
M-203	Interurban	Autopista eje Este	Mejorada del Campo (R-3) — * — Soto de Aldovea — M-224 — A-2/M-100
M-206	Interurban	Autovía M-206^[13]	Torrejón de Ardoz — * — Loeches
M-402	Urban	Autovía M-402	Madrid (Villaverde, A-42) — * — Leganés (ParqueSur mall) — † — Leganés (M-406)
M-404	Interurban	Autovía M-404^[15]	Navalcarnero (A-5/M-600) — * — R-5 — * — El Álamo — * — Serranillos del Valle (AP-41) — * — Griñón (M-407) — * — Torrejón de la Calzada (A-42) — * — R-4 — * — Valdemoro (A-4) — * — Ciempozuelos
M-406	Interurban & beltway	Autovía M-406	Leganés (*M-402) — M-409 — M-407 — Alcorcón (A-5/M-40)
M-407	Interurban	Autovía M-407^[16]^[17]	Leganés (M-406) — * — M-50 — * — Fuenlabrada (M-506) — M-410 — Griñón (M-404)
M-409	Interurban	Autovía M-409	Leganés (M-406) — M-50 — Fuenlabrada
M-423	Interurban	Autovía M-423	Pinto (M-506) — Valdemoro (M-404/R-4)
M-500	Interurban	Carretera de Castilla	Madrid (M-30) — M-503 — A-6
M-501	Interurban	Autovía de los Pantanos	M-40/M-511 — Boadilla del Monte (M-50) — Villaviciosa de Odón (M-506) — Brunete (M-600) — Chapinería (M-510) — Navas del Rey
M-503	Interurban	Autovía eje Noroeste^[16]	M-500 — * — Pozuelo de Alarcón — M-40 — M-50 — Villanueva del Pardillo — Villanueva de la Cañada (M-600)
M-506	Interurban & urban	Autovía M-506	Western stretch: Villaviciosa de Odón (M-501) — † — Alcorcón (M-50/A-5) — Móstoles (M-50) — M-407 — Fuenlabrada (M-405/M-413) — M-419 Eastern stretch: R-4 — Pinto (A-4) — M-423 — Warner Madrid Theme Park — † — San Martín de la Vega — † — Arganda del Rey (A-3/M-300)
M-509	Interurban	Autovía M-509^[13]	M-50 — * — Villanueva del Pardillo
M-600	Interurban	Autovía M-600^[15]	Villanueva de la Cañada (M-503) — † — Brunete (M-501) — † — Sevilla la Nueva — † — Navalcarnero (A-5/M-404)
M-607	Interurban	Autovía de Colmenar	Madrid (M-30) — M-40 — Alcobendas (M-616) — Tres Cantos — Colmenar Viejo (M-609)
M-609	Interurban	Autovía M-609^[13]	Colmenar Viejo (M-607) — * — Soto del Real

*: in construction — †: planned

Murcia

The coastal region of Murcia is an important touristic destination in Spain. Its nearly 1,5M inhabitants are mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the community, from Murcia city to the coast, while inland zones of Yecla, Jumilla and Caravaca de la Cruz are more sparsely populated. The national highway network provides good connectivity along the coast, with three highways links with Andalusia (A-91, A-7 and the tolled AP-7) and another three with the Valencian Community (A-7 and the tolled AP-7 and AP-37), but only the A-30 motorway connects Murcia with inland Spain. It is thus the goal of the regional government to provide alternative highway corridors that connect the inland border of Murcia to the coastal zones.

All in all, the autonomous government is investing heavily in its highway network, both for trips along the coast and inland-coast connectivity. Due to the expansion of the regional network that this effort is expected to produce, Murcia has recently implemented a new naming scheme for its regional highways, more in accordance with the national network. When the renaming is complete, all highways will be identified by white-on-blue names that start with RM (for Región de Murcia).

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
RM-1	Interurban	Autovía RM-1	San Javier (AP-7) — Zeneta (MU-30/RM-30/†AP-37)
RM-2	Interurban	Autovía Alhama - Campo de Cartagena	Alhama (A-7) — RM-23 — Fuente Álamo (MU-602) — Cartagena (A-30)
RM-3	Interurban	Autovía RM-3	Totana (A-7) — RM-23 — Mazarrón (AP-7)
RM-11	Interurban	Autovía RM-11	Lorca (A-7) — N-332 — Águilas (AP-7)
RM-12	Access road	Autovía de La Manga	Cartagena (AP-7/CT-32) — El Algar (N-332) — La Manga del Mar Menor
RM-15	Interurban	Autovía del Noroeste	Alcantarilla (MU-30/A-7) — Mula — Caravaca de la Cruz (C-415/RM-714)
RM-19	Access road	Autovía del Mar Menor	A-30 — Polaris World — San Javier (AP-7)
RM-23	Interurban	Autovía de conexión RM-23	RM-2 — RM-3
RM-30	Partial beltway	Ronda Este de Murcia	Santomera (A-7/RM-414) — Zeneta (MU-30/RM-1/†AP-37)
RM-36	Partial beltway	Ronda Transversal de Cartagena	N-332 — † — N-301a — F-36
RM-414	Interurban	Autovía RM-414	Santomera (A-7/RM-30) — † — Yecla — † — Almansa (Castilla-La Mancha, A-31)
RM-714	Interurban	Autovía RM-714	Jumilla — † — A-30 — † — Calasparra — † — Caravaca de la Cruz (RM-15/C-415)

*: in construction — †: planned

Navarre

The Foral Community of Navarre is another community with full powers over most roads in its territory. However, in contrast to the neighbouring Basque Country, the regional government has decided to keep the identifiers of some highways — namely, those which were part of a national highway before being transferred — in sync with the national system. The only road in Navarrese territory not under the authority of the regional government is the national toll highway AP-68 (Autopista Vasco-Aragonesa), which was kept by the state to avoid a four-pronged management by the concessionaire and the Basque, Navarrese and Spanish governments.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
A-1	Interurban	Autovía del Norte	Álava/Navarre border — Ziordia — Altsasu (A-10) — Navarre/Guipúzcoa limit
A-10	Interurban	Autovía de la Barranca	Irurtzun (A-15/AP-15) — Irañeta — Lakuntza — Arbizu — Etxarri-Aranatz — Altsasu (A-1)
A-12	Interurban	Autovía del Camino de Santiago	Zizur Mayor (A-15) — Puente la Reina — Estella-Lizarra — Los Arcos — Lazagurría — Viana — * — Navarre/La Rioja border (LO-20/A-12)
A-15	Interurban	Autovía A-15	Ronda de Pamplona Oeste (beltway): Noain (AP-15/A-21) — PA-30 — Pamplona-Iruña (PA-31) — Zizur Mayor (A-12) — Orkoyen — Berriozar (PA-34) — AP-15 Autovía de Leitzaran: Irurtzun (A-10/AP-15) — Lekunberri — Azpirotz — Areso — Navarre/Guipúzcoa border
AP-15	Interurban	Autopista AP-15	Southern stretch: AP-68 — A-68 — Castejón (N-113) — Tafalla (NA-132) — Pueyo — Baranoain/Garinoain — NA-601/N-121 — Noain (A-15/A-21) Northern stretch: A-15 — PA-34 — Sarasate (N-240a) — Irurtzun (A-10/A-15)
A-21	Interurban	Autovía del Pirineo	Noain (A-15/AP-15) — Monreal — Ibargoiti — * — Liédena — * — Yesa — * — Navarre/Huesca border
A-68	Interurban	Autovía del Ebro	Zaragoza/Navarre border (N-232) — Cortes — Fontellas (NA-134) — Tudela (AP-68) — Liédena — AP-15/N-232
PA-30	Partial beltway	Ronda de Pamplona	A-15 — Pamplona (PA-31) — Aranguren — PA-33 — Olaz — NA-150
PA-34	Access road	Western access to Pamplona	AP-15 — Berriozar (A-15) — Pamplona-Iruña (N-240)

*: in construction — †: planned

Valencian Community

The fourth Spanish autonomous community by population and a preferred tourist destination, the Valencian Community has a varied orography, from great plains to prelitoral mountain ranges, and a territory of generally high ecological value. Nevertheless, the regional government has pushed for a rich and tupid highway network, building connections between the various national highways that serve the Community and beltways for the provincial capitals.

Like highways in Madrid and Andalusia, Valencian regional motorways do not have special identifiers different from other autonomic roads, so orange, green and yellow backgrounds are possible. All identifiers are prefixed with CV for Comunitat Valenciana, the official name of the region.

The regional highway CV-10 is currently being expanded to the limit with Catalonia and will be transferred to the national Government as a new stretch of the A-7 (Autovía del Mediterráneo). The same applies to the CV-40 highway.

Signal	Type	Denomination	Itinerary
CV-10	Interurban	Autovía de la Plana	Nules (A-7/N-340) — Betxí — CV-20 — Castellón de la Plana (CV-17) — CV-16 — Borriol — La Pobla Tornesa — Cabanes — * — Vilanova d'Alcolea — † — La Jana — † — Castellón/Tarragona border
CV-18	Interurban	Autovía CV-18	Castellón de la Plana (CV-197) — † — Almazora — * — Burriana — † — Nules (N-340)
CV-30	Partial beltway	Ronda Nord de València	V-30 — Paterna (CV-31) — Valencia (CV-35) — † — Alboraia — † — V-21
CV-31	Urban	Distribuïdor Nord	Paterna (CV-30) — CV-365 — Burjassot (CV-35)
CV-32	Interurban	Eix de la Gombalda	Massalfassar (V-21) — * — Massamagrell/Museros (CV-300) — † — A-7
CV-33	Interurban	Distribuïdor Sud	Torrent (CV-366) — Albal
CV-35	Urban & interurban	Autovía de Ademuz	Valencia (CV-30) — Burjassot (CV-61/CV-365) — A-7 — San Antonio de Benagéber — La Pobla de Vallbona — CV-50 — Llíria
CV-36	Iinterurban	Autovía de Torrent	Valencia (Camí Nou de Picanya) — Picanya (CV-366) — Torrent — Alaquàs — El Mas del Jutge — A-7
CV-40	Interurban	Autovía CV-40	Xàtiva (A-7) — Ontinyent — Albaida — * — Cocentaina — * — Alcoi — * — A-7
CV-60	Interurban	Autovía CV-60	L'Olleria (CV-40) — † — Alfarrasí (N-340) — † — CV-610 — Gandía (CV-600)
CV-70	Interurban	Autovía CV-70	Alcoi (A-7) — † — Polop (N-340) — † — Benidorm (AP-7)
CV-80	Interurban	Autovía CV-80	Sax (A-31) — Castalla — A-7
CV-365	Urban	Northeastern access to Paterna	Burjassot (CV-35) — CV-31 — V-11/V-30
CV-500	Urban	Autovía del Saler	Valencia (Alcalde Reig Street) — V-30 — El Saler
CV-864	Partial beltway	Ronda Sud de Elx	EL-20 — † — CV-866

*: in construction — †: planned

References

↑ "List of countries by road network size".
↑ "CIA - The World Factbook -- Spain". Central Intelligence Agency.
↑ (Spanish) movimiento140.com asks for the general limits on both autopistas an autovías to be raised to 140 km/h (85 mph).
↑ Spans marked with * are under construction
↑ Transferred to the Madrid City Council
↑ "Medio Ambiente retoca una autopista para preservar cañadas". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish) (Zaragoza: Grupo Zeta). 6 December 2007. p. 24. Archived from the original on 7 December 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2010. El Departamento de Medio Ambiente de la DGA ha emitido una declaración de impacto ambiental favorable al estudio informativo de la autopista autonómica que conectará la autovía Mudéjar desde Cariñena con la A-68 y la N-232 en Mallén.
↑ "La DGA hará una autovía entre Huesca y Bujaraloz para comunicar Gran Scala" [The Aragón Government will build a highway between Huesca and Bujaraloz to communicate Gran Scala] (JPG). Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish) (Zaragoza). 17 December 2007. p. 7. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
↑ "Licitan el tramo entre Villaseca y Seseña de la Autovía de la Sagra". La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish) (Toledo). 16 June 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2010. El tercer tramo de la autovía (que se desarrolla entre Villaseca de la Sagra y Seseña), tendrá 21 kilómetros y contará con un presupuesto de 91,1 millones de euros
1 2 "Las autovías de La Sagra y del IV Centenario estarán listas en 2010" [The Sagra and IV Centenario highways will be completed in 2010]. La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish) (Toledo). 3 November 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2010. En 2010 estarán abiertas al tráfico las autovías de La Sagra, en el norte de Toledo, y la del IV Centenario, que en su primera fase unirá Ciudad Real y Valdepeñas y después llegará hasta la A32 a la altura de Alcaraz (Albacete).
↑ Belén, Rodríguez (2009-06-10). "En un año habrá circulación por la nueva Autovía del IV Centenario" [Users will be able to travel the new IV Centenario Highway in a year]. Lanza digital (in Spanish). Ciudad Real: Diario Lanza. Retrieved 2010-04-05. De aquí a doce meses se podrá ir por autovía desde la capital hasta Granátula de Calatrava o acceder a los pueblos calatravos que aparecen en los nueve enlaces incluidos en los 28 kilómetros del primer tramo del trazado
↑ The tolled autopista ends at Manresa, where a non-tolled autovía with the same name takes on.
↑ "Construcción de nuevas carreteras" [Projected new roads]. Ampliación de la Red de Carreteras 2007-2011 (in Spanish). Madrid: General Roads Directorate, Madrid Transports and Infrastructures regional Ministry. June 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010. NUEVA CARRETERA M-61: UNIÓN DE LA A-1, PK20, CON LA A-6, P.K.22
1 2 3 4 "Duplicación de calzadas" [Roads to be twinned]. Ampliación de la Red de Carreteras 2007-2011 (in Spanish). Madrid: General Roads Directorate, Madrid Transports and Infrastructures regional Ministry. June 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010. DESDOBLAMIENTO DE LA M-100 ENTRE ALCALÁ DE HENARES Y LA R-2
↑ "La M-121 se duplicará en 4,2 kilómetros, entre Alcalá de Henares y Meco" (in Spanish). Madrid: General Roads Directorate, Madrid Transports and Infrastructures regional Ministry. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2010. El proyecto consiste en el desdoblamiento de esta carretera desde su enlace con la A-2 hasta la entrada al centro urbano de Meco, en un tramo de 4,2 kilómetros de longitud que en la actualidad registra una alta intensidad de circulación.
1 2 Contreras, Mercedes (10 October 2009). "Una autovía de 70 kilómetros de largo vertebrará 14 municipios del suroeste" [A 70 kilometre-long highway will connect 14 towns in the Southwest]. ABC (in Spanish) (Madrid). Retrieved 8 April 2010. Así, el tramo correspondiente a la M-600, en el que se invertirán según las previsiones 187,7 millones de euros, contará con 8 enlaces, mientras que en la zona de la M-404, con una inversión de de 303 millones, se construirán 16 enlaces más.
1 2 "Eliminación de cruces a nivel" [Removal of level crossings]. Ampliación de la Red de Carreteras 2007-2011 (in Spanish). Madrid: General Roads Directorate, Madrid regional Ministry of Transports and Infrastructures. June 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010. SUSTITUCIÓN DE TRES ENLACES EN LA M-407
↑ "La Comunidad transformará en autovía la M-407 al paso por Leganés". El Mundo (in Spanish) (Madrid). EFE. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2010.

Highways in Spain

Autovías (A) Autopistas (AP)

National routes	A1/AP1 A2/AP2 A3 A4/AP4 A5 A6/AP6 A7/AP7 A8/AP8 AP9 A10 A11 A12 A13¹ A14² A15/AP15 A16 A17³ A18⁴ A19 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31 A32 A33 A34 A35 AP36 AP37 A38 A39 A40 AP41 A42 A43 A44 A45 AP46 A47 A48 A49 A50 AP51 A52 AP53 A54 A55 A56 A57 A58 A59 A60 AP61 A62 A63 A64 A65 A66/AP66 A67 AP68 AP69 A70 AP71 A72 A73 A74 A75 A76 A77 A78 A79 A80 A91 Madrid Radial Motorways R1 R2 R3 R4 R5

Regional routes	Andalusia A92 A92G A92M A92N A301 A306 A308 A309 A316 A318 A330 A334 A339 A357 A364 A374 A375 A376 A381 A382 A383 A384 A394 A397 A401 A403 A461 A484 A493 A495 A496 Aragon ARAA1 ARAA2 ARAA3 Asturias AS1 AS2 AS3 Balearic Islands MA1 MA13 MA19 Basque Country BI631 BI636 BI637 GI131 GI632 N637 Canary Islands GC1 GC2 GC3 GC4 TF1 TF4 TF5 Castile–La Mancha CM10 CM40 CM41 CM42 CM43 CM44 CM45 Castile and León A231 A601 CL631 Catalonia C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C25 C31 C32 C33 C35 C58 C60 C65 Extremadura EXA1 EXA2 EXA3 EXA4 Galicia AG3 AG5 AG6 AG41 AG54 AG55 AG56 AG57 AG58 A59 AG64 La Rioja LR111 LR134 Madrid M30 M40 M45 M50 M406 M407 M409 M501 M506 M607 Murcia MU312 MU415 MU3211 MU3419 Valencian Community CV10 CV18 CV30 CV31 CV33 CV35 CV36 CV40 CV70 CV80 CV84 CV86 CV90 CV95

Urban routes	A Coruña AC10 AC11 AC12 AC14 Alacant/Alicante AL70 AL77 AL79 Almería AL12 AL14 Avilés AI81 Badajoz BA11 BA20 Barcelona B10 B20 B21 B22 B23 B24 B30 B40 Burgos BU11 BU30 Cáceres CC11 CC21 CC23 Cádiz CA31 CA32 CA33 CA34 Cartagena CT31 CT32 CT33 CT34 Castelló/Castellón CS32 Córdoba CO31 CO32 Cuenca CU11 Elche/Elx EL20 EL28 Ferrol FE11 FE12 FE13 FE14 Gijón GJ10 GJ20 GJ81 Granada GR12 GR14 GR16 GR30 GR43 Huelva H30 H31 Ibiza IB20 Jaén JA12 JA14 León LE12 LE20 LE30 Lleida LL11 LL12 Logroño LO20 Lugo LU11 Madrid M11 M12 M13 M14 M21 M22 M23 M30 M31 M40 M45 M50 Málaga MA20 MA21 MA22 MA23 MA24 MA40 Mérida ME11 Murcia MU30 MU31 Oviedo O11 O12 O13 Ourense OU11 Palencia P11 Palma de Mallorca MA20 Pontevedra PO10 PO11 PO12 Puertollano PU11 Salamanca SA11 SA20 Santander S10 S20 S30 Santiago de Compostela SC11 SC12 SC20 Segovia SG20 Seville SE20 SE30 SE40 SE50 Soria SO20 Tarragona T11 Toledo TO20 TO21 TO22 TO23 Valladolid VA11 VA12 VA20 VA30 Valencia V11 V15 V21 V23 V30 V31 Vigo VG20 Zamora ZA11 ZA12 ZA13 ZA30 Zaragoza Z30 Z32 Z40

¹ named N-111 ² named N-230 ³ named C-33 ⁴ named C-16

Roads in Europe

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