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Nicaragua TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Roads: 26,000 kilometers in 1993; 4,000
kilometers
paved, 2,200 kilometers gravel. Pan American Highway runs
north
to south for 369 kilometers. Roads highly concentrated in
western
and central zones, with one unfinished road linking
Caribbean and
Pacific coasts.
Railroads: 373 kilometers, 1.067-meter narrow
gauge,
linking Managua to León and Granada. Section from León to
Corinto
unusable.
Ports: One principal, suitable for deep-water
berthing
at Corinto; secondary port at Puerto Sandino for
offloading of
petroleum; two smaller ports at Puerto Cabezas and
Bluefields.
Airports: One international, Augusto C. Sandino
International Airport in Managua; ten secondary airfields.
Telecommunications: Eight television, eleven FM,
and
forty-five AM radio stations. Total number of telephones
in 1993
estimated at 60,000, or only 1.5 per 100 inhabitants.
International communications to other Central American
countries
via Central American Microwave System (CAMS), to rest of
world
via International Telecommunications Satellite Corporation
(Intelsat) satellite ground station near Managua and
former
Soviet Union Intersputnik system.
Data as of December 1993
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