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<title>
Brazil: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Brazil
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 28,828 km total; 24,864 km 1.000-meter gauge, 3,877
km 1.600-meter gauge, 74 km mixed 1.600-1.000-meter gauge, 13 km
0.760-meter gauge; 2,360 km electrified
</p>
<p>Highways: 1,448,000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km
gravel or earth
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 50,000 km navigable
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil 2,000 km; petroleum products 3,804 km;
natural gas 1,095 km
</p>
<p>Ports: Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Manaus, Paranagua, Porto
Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Salvador, Santos
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 232 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
5,335,234 GRT/8,986,734 DWT; includes 5 passenger-cargo, 42
cargo, 1 refrigerated cargo, 10 container, 11 roll-on/roll-off,
58 oil tanker, 15 chemical tanker, 12 combination ore/oil, 65
bulk, 2 combination bulk, 11 vehicle carrier; in addition, 1
naval tanker is sometimes used commercially
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 3,613</l>
<l> usable: 3,031</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 431</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 2</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 22</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 584</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: good system; extensive microwave radio
relay facilities; 9.86 million telephones; broadcast stations -
1,223 AM, no FM, 112 TV, 151 shortwave; 3 coaxial submarine
cables, 3 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations and 64 domestic
satellite earth stations
</p></body></article></text>