Railroads: 34,172 km total (includes 164 km electrified); includes a mixture of 1.435-meter standard gauge, 1.676-meter broad gauge, 1.000-meter gauge, and 0.750-meter gauge

Highways: 208,350 km total; 47,550 km paved, 39,500 km gravel, 101,000 km improved earth, 20,300 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 11,000 km navigable

Pipelines: 4,090 km crude oil; 2,900 km refined products; 9,918 km natural gas

Ports: Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Necochea, Rio Gallegos, Rosario, Santa Fe

Merchant marine: 138 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,686,755 GRT/2,655,211 DWT; includes 49 cargo, 6 refrigerated cargo, 6 container, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 railcar carrier, 52 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 2 chemical tanker, 5 liquefied gas, 16 bulk; note--in addition, 1 naval tanker and 1 naval transport are sometimes used commercially

Civil air: 54 major transport aircraft

Airports: 1,834 total, 1,655 usable; 129 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 29 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 336 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: extensive modern system; 2,650,000 telephones (12,000 public telephones); radio relay widely used; stations--171 AM, no FM, 231 TV, 13 shortwave; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations; domestic satellite network has 40 stations

NOTE: The information regarding Argentina on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Argentina Communications 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Argentina Communications 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.