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Railwaystotal: 13 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 12.5 km 0.914-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 9,012 km (2017)

paved: 5,341 km (2017)

unpaved: 3,671 km (2017)
Waterways(Rio Lempa River is partially navigable by small craft) (2011)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Puerto Cutuco

oil terminal(s): Acajutla offshore terminal
Merchant marinetotal: 2

by type: other 2 (2020)
Airportstotal: 68 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 5 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2017)

under 914 m: 1 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 63 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 11 (2013)

under 914 m: 51 (2013)
Heliports2 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 13

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 2,545,105 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 10.73 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixYS

Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021

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