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- <text id=94CT0406><title>Ecuador—Communications</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Ecuador<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 965 km total; all 1.067-meter-gauge single track
- <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 28,000 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 3,600 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel or improved earth 17,400 km; unimproved earth 7,000 km
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- <item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 1,500 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 800 km; petroleum products 1,358 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Guayaquil, Manta, Puerto Bolivar, Esmeraldas
- <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 40 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 263,752 GRT/378,675 DWT, bulk 1, cargo 3, container 2, liquefied gas 1, oil tanker 14, passenger 3, refrigerated cargo 15, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1
- <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 211
- <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 208
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 56
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runway over 3,659 m:</hi> 1
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 2,440-3,659 m:</hi> 7
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 1,220-2,439 m:</hi> 21
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- <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> domestic facilities generally adequate; 318,000 telephones; telephone density—30 per 1,000 persons; broadcast stations—272 AM, no FM, 33 TV, 39 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
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