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- Railroads: 34,172 km total (includes 169 km electrified);
- includes a mixture of 1.435-meter standard gauge, 1.676-meter
- broad gauge, 1.000-meter gauge, and 0.750-meter gauge.
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- Highways: 208,350 km total; 47,550 km paved, 39,500 km gravel,
- 101,000 km improved earth, 20,300 km unimproved earth.
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- Inland waterways: 11,000 km navigable.
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- Pipelines: 4,090 km crude oil; 2,900 km refined products;
- 9,918 km natural gas.
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- Ports: Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Necochea, Rio Gallegos,
- Rosario, Santa Fe.
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- Merchant marine: 131 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 1,693,540 GRT/2,707,079 DWT; includes 45 cargo, 6 refrigerated
- cargo, 6 container, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 railcar
- carrier, 48 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker,
- 2 chemical tanker, 4 liquefied gas, 18 bulk.
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- Civil air: 54 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 1,799 total, 1,617 usable; 132 with permanent-surface
- runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 30 with runways 2,440-3,659
- m; 335 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: extensive modern system; 2,650,000 telephones
- (12,000 public telephones); radio relay widely used; stations--171
- AM, no FM, 231 TV, 13 shortwave; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
- earth stations; domestic satellite network has 40 stations.
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