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  1. <text id=93CT0405>
  2. <title>
  3. Ecuador--Communications
  4. </title>
  5. <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Ecuador
  6. Communications</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Railroads: 965 km total; all 1.067-meter-gauge single track
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Highways: 28,000 km total; 3,600 km paved, 17,400 km gravel
  10. and improved earth, 7,000 km unimproved earth
  11. </p>
  12. <p>Inland waterways: 1,500 km
  13. </p>
  14. <p>Pipelines: crude oil 800 km; petroleum products 1,358 km
  15. </p>
  16. <p>Ports: Guayaquil, Manta, Puerto Bolivar, Esmeraldas
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Merchant marine: 45 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 333,380
  19. GRT/483,862 DWT; includes 2 passenger, 4 cargo, 17 refrigerated
  20. cargo, 4 container, 1 roll-on/roll-off, 15 oil tanker, 1
  21. liquefied gas, 1 bulk
  22. </p>
  23. <list>
  24. <l>Airports:</l>
  25. <l>  total: 174</l>
  26. <l>  usable: 173</l>
  27. <l>  with permanent-surface runways: 52</l>
  28. <l>  with runway over 3,659 m: 1</l>
  29. <l>  with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 6</l>
  30. <l>  with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 21</l>
  31. </list>
  32. <p>Telecommunications: domestic facilities generally adequate;
  33. 318,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 272 AM, no FM, 33 TV,
  34. 39 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
  35. </p></body></article></text>
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