Railroads: 29,781 km total; 25,155 km 1.000-meter gauge, 4,339 km 1.600-meter gauge, 74 km mixed 1.600-1.000-meter gauge, 200 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 13 km 0.760-meter gauge; 1,915 km electrified

Highways: 1,448,000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km gravel or earth

Inland waterways: 50,000 km navigable

Pipelines: crude oil, 2,000 km; refined products, 3,804 km; natural gas, 1,095 km

Ports: Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Manaus, Paranagua, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Salvador, Santos

Merchant marine: 289 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,835,895 GRT/9,780,538 DWT; includes 85 cargo, 2 cargo-training, 2 refrigerated cargo, 11 container, 14 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 55 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 15 chemical tanker, 10 liquefied gas, 14 combination ore/oil, 81 bulk; note--in addition, 1 naval tanker and 4 military transports are sometimes used commercially

Civil air: 176 major transport aircraft

Airports: 4,022 total, 3,375 usable; 371 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 23 with runways 2,240-3,659 m; 491 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: good system; extensive radio relay facilities; 9.86 million telephones; stations--1,223 AM, no FM, 112 TV, 151 shortwave; 3 coaxial submarine cables 3 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations with total of 3 antennas; 64 domestic satellite stations

NOTE: The information regarding Brazil 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 Brazil Communications 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Brazil Communications 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.