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Communications
Railroads: 3,000 km, all 1.435-meter standard gauge and
government owned.
Highways: 49,900 km total; 6,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel,
40,200 km earth.
Inland waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft
river craft.
Ports: Montevideo, Punta del Este.
Merchant marine: 4 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 65,212
GRT/116,613 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 container.
Civil air: 14 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 92 total, 87 usable; 16 with permanent-surface
runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways
2,440-3,659 m; 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: most modern facilities concentrated
in Montevideo; new nationwide radio relay network; 337,000
telephones; stations--99 AM, no FM, 26 TV, 9 shortwave;
2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations.