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Ecuador vs. Peru

Transportation

EcuadorPeru
Railwaystotal: 965 km (2017)

narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge (2017)

note: passenger service limited to certain sections of track, mostly for tourist trains
total: 1,854 km (2014)

standard gauge: 1,730.4 km 1.435-m gauge (34 km electrified) (2014)

narrow gauge: 124 km 0.914-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 43,216 km (2015)

paved: 8,161 km (2015)

unpaved: 35,055 km (2015)
total: 140,672 km (18,699 km paved) (2012)

note: includes 24,593 km of national roads (14,748 km paved), 24,235 km of departmental roads (2,340 km paved), and 91,844 km of local roads (1,611 km paved)
Waterways1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2012)8,808 km (8,600 km of navigable tributaries on the Amazon River system and 208 km on Lago Titicaca) (2011)
Pipelines485 km extra heavy crude, 123 km gas, 2131 km oil, 1526 km refined products (2017)786 km extra heavy crude, 1526 km gas, 679 km liquid petroleum gas, 1033 km oil, 15 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Esmeraldas, Manta, Puerto Bolivar

container port(s) (TEUs): Guayaquil (1,680,751) (2019)

river port(s): Guayaquil (Guayas)
major seaport(s): Callao, Matarani, Paita

oil terminal(s): Conchan oil terminal, La Pampilla oil terminal

container port(s) (TEUs): Callao (2,313,907) (2019)

river port(s): Iquitos, Pucallpa, Yurimaguas (Amazon)
Merchant marinetotal: 147

by type: container ship 1, general cargo 7, oil tanker 29, other 110 (2020)
total: 97

by type: general cargo 1, oil tanker 10, other 86 (2020)
Airportstotal: 432 (2013)total: 191 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 104 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 4 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 18 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 26 (2017)

under 914 m: 51 (2017)
total: 59 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 5 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 21 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 16 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 12 (2017)

under 914 m: 5 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 328 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 37 (2013)

under 914 m: 291 (2013)
total: 132 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 19 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 30 (2013)

under 914 m: 82 (2013)
Heliports2 (2013)5 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 7 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 35

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 5,365,261 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 64.2 million mt-km (2018)
number of registered air carriers: 6 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 62

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 17,758,527 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 313.26 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixHCOB

Source: CIA Factbook