Encyclopedia > Transportation in Ecuador

  Article Content

Transportation in Ecuador

Railways:
total: 812 km (single track)
narrow gauge: 812 km 1.067-m gauge

Highways:
total: 43,197 km
paved: 8,165 km
unpaved: 35,032 km (1999 est.)

Waterways: 1,500 km

Pipelines: crude oil 800 km; petroleum products 1,358 km

Ports and harbors: Esmeraldas[?], Guayaquil, La Libertad[?], Manta[?], Puerto Bolivar[?], San Lorenzo

Merchant marine[?]:
total: 29 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 233,151 GRT/388,750 DWT
ships by type: chemical tanker 2, liquified gas 1, passenger 4, petroleum tanker 22 (1999 est.)

Airports: 182 (1999 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 57
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 20 (1999 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 125
914 to 1,523 m: 36
under 914 m: 89 (1999 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1999 est.)

See also : Ecuador



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Class Warfare

... Interview (an interview conducted ten years since Barsamian first interviewed Chomsky) Rollback: The Return of Predatory Capitalism History and Memory The Federal ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 71.1 ms