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<title>
Uruguay: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Uruguay
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 3,000 km, all 1.435-meter (standard) gauge and
government owned
</p>
<p>Highways: 49,900 km total; 6,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel,
40,200 km earth
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft
river craft
</p>
<p>Ports: Montevideo, Punta del Este, Colonia
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 84,797
GRT/132,296 DWT; includes 1 cargo, 2 container, 1 oil tanker
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 88</l>
<l> usable: 81</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 16</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 2</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 14</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: most modern facilities concentrated in
Montevideo; new nationwide microwave network; 337,000
telephones; broadcast stations - 99 AM, no FM, 26 TV, 9
shortwave; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations
</p></body></article></text>