Bolivia Transportation - 2024

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 7 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 39

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 4,122,113 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 13.73 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

CP

Airports

200 (2024)

Heliports

3 (2024)

Pipelines

5,457 km gas, 51 km liquid petroleum gas, 2,511 km oil, 1,627 km refined products (2013)

Railways

total: 3,960 km (2019)

narrow gauge: 3,960 km (2014) 1.000-m gauge

Roadways

total: 90,568 km

paved: 9,792 km

unpaved: 80,776 km (2017)

Waterways

10,000 km (2012) (commercially navigable almost exclusively in the northern and eastern parts of the country)

Merchant marine

total: 50 (2023)

by type: general cargo 30, oil tanker 2, other 18

Ports and terminals

river port(s): Puerto Aguirre (Paraguay/Parana)

note: Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay

NOTE: The information regarding Bolivia on this page is re-published from the 2024 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bolivia 2024 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bolivia 2024 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.