Brazil Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 29,300 km total; 25,500 km 1.000-meter gauge, 3,500 km 1.600-meter gauge, 200 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 2,400 km 0.760-meter gauge; 879 km electrified

Highways: 1,498.000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km gravel or earth

Inland waterways: 50,000 km navigable

Ports: 8 major, 23 significant minor

Pipelines: crude oil, 2,000 km; refined products, 465 km; natural gas, 257 km

Civil air: 176 major transport aircraft

Airfields. 4,188 total, 3,163 usable; 306 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 23 with runways 2,440-3,659 m 449 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: good telecom system; extensive radio relay facilities; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT stations with total of 3

antennas, 64 domestic satellite stations; 9.86 million telephones (7.3 per 100 popl.); 1,5(X> AM, 200 TV stations; 3 coaxial submarine cables

NOTE: The information regarding Brazil on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Brazil 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Brazil 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.