Ecuador Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 965 km total; all I.067-meter gauge single track

Highways: 28,000 km total; 3,600 km paved, 17,400 km gravel and improved earth, 7,000 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 1,500 km

Pipelines: crude oil, 800 km; refined products, 1,358 km

Ports: 4 major (Guayaquil, Manta, Puerto

Bolivar, Esmeraldas), 6 minor

Civil air: 44 major transport aircraft

Airfields· 177 total, 174 usable; 29 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m, 6 with runways 2,4403,659 m, 21 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: domestic facilities generally adequate; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station; 318,000 telephones (3.9 per 100 popi); 285 AM, 24 TV stations

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