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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
Roadwaystotal: 43,216 km (2015)

paved: 8,161 km (2015)

unpaved: 35,055 km (2015)
Waterways1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2012)
Pipelines485 km extra heavy crude, 123 km gas, 2131 km oil, 1526 km refined products (2017)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Esmeraldas, Manta, Puerto Bolivar

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

river port(s): Guayaquil (Guayas)
Merchant marinetotal: 147

by type: container ship 1, general cargo 7, oil tanker 29, other 110 (2020)
Airportstotal: 432 (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)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 328 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 37 (2013)

under 914 m: 291 (2013)
Heliports2 (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)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixHC

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

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