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South America > Colombia > Transportation

COLOMBIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 190,200 [20th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 39 [10th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 34 [9th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 272 [5th of 137]
Highways > Paved 26,000 km [45th of 171]
Highways > Total 110,000 km [27th of 181]
Motor vehicles 29 motor vehicles per 100 p [93rd of 134]
Ports and harbors
Bahia de Portete, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Cartagena, Leticia, Puerto Bolivar, San Andres, Santa Marta, Tumaco, Turbo
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 15.43 million passenger-km ... [60th of 83]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 6,227 million ton-km ... [30th of 52]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 14.4 % ... [108th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 112,988 km ... [31st of 172]
Roadways > Paved 16,270 km [73rd of 205]
Roadways > Total 112,988 km [37th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 96,718 km [23rd of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over disputed maritime boundary involving 50,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea, including the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank; maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela; Colombian drug activities penetrate Peruvian border area; the continuing civil disorder in Colombia has created a serious refugee crisis in neighboring states, especially Ecuador
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 47.02 % ... [68th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 23.97 % ... [70th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 3.43 per square km [79th of 141]
Waterways 18,000 km [6th of 106]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Colombia, Republic of Colombia, Republica de Colombia, columbia

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