Paraguay Transportation - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number 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 prefix

ZP

Airports

total: 799 (2013)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 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 runways

total: 784 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 290 (2013)

under 914 m: 471 (2013)

Railways

total: 30 km (2014)

standard gauge: 30 km 1.435-m gauge (2014)

Roadways

total: 74,676 km (2017)

paved: 6,167 km (2017)

unpaved: 68,509 km (2017)

Waterways

3,100 km (primarily on the Paraguay and Paraná River systems) (2012)

Merchant marine

total: 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

Ports and terminals

river port(s): Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion (Parana)

NOTE: The information regarding Paraguay on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Paraguay 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Paraguay 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.