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<text>
<title>
Venezuela: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Venezuela
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 542 km total; 363 km 1.435-meter standard gauge all
single track, government owned; 179 km 1.435-meter gauge,
privately owned
</p>
<p>Highways: 77,785 km total; 22,780 km paved, 24,720 km gravel,
14,450 km earth roads, and 15,835 km unimproved earth
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 7,100 km; Rio Orinoco and Lago de Maracaibo
accept oceangoing vessels
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil 6,370 km; petroleum products 480 km;
natural gas 4,010 km
</p>
<p>Ports: Amuay Bay, Bajo Grande, El Tablazo, La Guaira, Puerto
Cabello, Puerto Ordaz
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 56 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 837,375
GRT/1,344,795 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 1 passenger
cargo, 19 cargo, 2 container, 4 roll-on/roll-off, 18 oil tanker,
1 chemical tanker, 2 liquefied gas, 6 bulk, 1 vehicle carrier, 1
combination bulk
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 360</l>
<l> usable: 331</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 133</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 15</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 87</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: modern and expanding; 1,440,000
telephones; broadcast stations - 181 AM, no FM, 59 TV, 26
shortwave; 3 submarine coaxial cables; satellite ground stations
- 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 3 domestic
</p></body></article></text>