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Paraguay Transportation Profile

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Railwaystotal: 30 km (2014)

standard gauge: 30 km 1.435-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 74,676 km (2017)

paved: 6,167 km (2017)

unpaved: 68,509 km (2017)
Waterways3,100 km (primarily on the Paraguay and Paraná River systems) (2012)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion (Parana)
Merchant marinetotal: 110

by type: container ship 3, general cargo 25, oil tanker 5, other 77 (2020)

note: as of 2017, Paraguay registered 2,012 fluvial vessels of which 1,741 were commercial barges
Airportstotal: 799 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 15 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 3 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 7 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 5 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 784 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 23 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 290 (2013)

under 914 m: 471 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 2 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 8

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 560,631 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.97 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixZP

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

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