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Uruguay TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Roads: One of best highway systems in Latin
America. In
1989 about 50,000 kilometers total, including 6,800
kilometers
paved roads, 3,000 kilometers gravel roads, and over
40,200
kilometers dirt roads.
Railroads: One of best rail systems in Latin
America
(but passenger service discontinued in 1988 because of
declining
ridership). In 1989 about 3,000 kilometers total, all
1.435-meter
standard gauge and government owned.
Ports: Montevideo, Punta del Este, Colonia, Fray
Bentos, Paysandú, and Salto principal ports.
Airports: Two international airports (Montevideo
and
Punte del Este) and fourteen other primarily commercial
airports
with permanent-surface runways.
Telecommunications: Most modern facilities
concentrated
in Montevideo. New nationwide radio relay network. Total
telephones in 1990 over 345,000 (highest per capita in
South
America). In 1990 ninety-nine AM (ten of them shortwave)
radio
stations, twenty-six television stations, and two
satellite earth
stations.
Data as of December 1990
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