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Communications
Railroads: 20,680 km total; 19,950 km 1.435-meter standard
gauge; 730 km 0.914-meter narrow gauge.
Highways: 210,000 km total; 65,000 km paved, 30,000 km semipaved
or cobblestone, 60,000 km rural roads (improved earth) or
roads under construction, 55,000 km unimproved earth roads.
Inland waterways: 2,900 km navigable rivers and coastal
canals.
Pipelines: crude oil, 4,381 km; refined products, 8,345 km;
natural gas, 13,254 km.
Ports: Acapulco, Coatzacoalcos, Ensenada, Guaymas, Manzanillo,
Mazatlan, Progreso, Puerto Vallarta, Salina Cruz, Tampico,
Veracruz.
Merchant marine: 68 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,041,229
GRT/1,552,478 DWT; includes 5 short-sea passenger, 10 cargo,
2 refrigerated cargo, 2 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 31 petroleum,
oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 3 chemical tanker, 7
liquefied gas, 4 bulk, 4 combination bulk.
Civil air: 174 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 1,785 total, 1,484 usable; 190 with permanent-surface
runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 31 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
259 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: highly developed system with extensive
radio relay links; connection into Central American Microwave
System; 6.41 million telephones; stations--679 AM, no FM,
238 TV, 22 shortwave; 120 domestic satellite terminals;
satellite earth stations--4 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and
1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT.