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Railwaystotal: 3,960 km (2019)

narrow gauge: 3,960 km 1.000-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 90,568 km (2017)

paved: 9,792 km (2017)

unpaved: 80,776 km (2017)
Waterways10,000 km (commercially navigable almost exclusively in the northern and eastern parts of the country) (2012)
Pipelines5457 km gas, 51 km liquid petroleum gas, 2511 km oil, 1627 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Puerto Aguirre (Paraguay/Parana)

note: Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay
Merchant marinetotal: 42

by type: general cargo 27, oil tanker 1, other 14 (2020)
Airportstotal: 855 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 21 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 5 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 6 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 834 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 47 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 151 (2013)

under 914 m: 631 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 7 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 39

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 4,122,113 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 13.73 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixCP

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

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