Costa Rica Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 800 km total, all 1.067-meter gauge, 243 km electrified

Highways: 15,400 km total; 7,030 km paved, 7,010 km gravel, 1 360 km unimproved earth

Inland waterway: about 730 km, seasonally navigable

Pipelines: refined products, 95 km

Ports: 1 major (Limon), 4 secondary (Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puntarenas)

Civil air: 9 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 221 total, 212 usable; 28 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 9 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: very good domestic telephone service; 292,000 telephones (11.8 per 100 popl.); connection into Central American microwave net; 62 AM stations, 17 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station

NOTE: The information regarding Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Costa Rica 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.