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Peru TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Ports: Lima's port of Callao services most
shipping. Of
country's seventeen deep-water ports, most in northern
Peru. Five
main river ports.
Railroads: System totaled 1,884 kilometers in
1990
(1,584 kilometers of standard gauge and 300 kilometers of
narrow
gauge track).
Roads: System totaled 69,942 kilometers in 1991,
including 7,459 kilometers of paved roads, 13,538
kilometers of
gravel, and 48,945 kilometers of unimproved earth. Road
maintenance haphazard and substandard, except for Pan
American
Highway and Trans-Andean Highway.
Airports: In 1991 Peru had 201 usable airports,
36 with
permanent-surface runways. Jorge Chávez International
Airport
near Lima principal international airport.
Waterways: Totaled 8,600 kilometers of navigable
tributaries of the Río Amazonas (Amazon system) and 208
kilometers of Lake Titicaca.
Telecommunications: Telephone system one of
Latin
America's least developed (544,000 telephones). Peru
eliminated
its telecommunications monopoly in November 1991 after
concluding
state companies had impeded modernization and hurt
consumers,
especially in rural areas. Broadcast stations included 273
AM, no
FM, 140 TV, 144 shortwave.
Data as of September 1992
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