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Central America and the Caribbean > Guatemala > Transportation

GUATEMALAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 6,500 [108th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 4 [49th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 8 [35th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 109 [11th of 137]
Highways > Paved 4,871 km [81st of 171]
Highways > Total 14,118 km [89th of 181]
Motor vehicles 19 motor vehicles per 100 p [99th of 134]
Ports and harbors
Champerico, Puerto Barrios, Puerto Quetzal, San Jose, Santo Tomas de Castilla
Roads, paved > % of total roads 34.5 % ... [77th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 14,095 km ... [97th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 4,863 km [111st of 205]
Roadways > Total 14,095 km [123rd of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 9,232 km [96th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
Guatemalan squatters continue to settle in Belize border region; OAS brokered Differendum in 2002 creating small adjustment to land boundary, large Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, joint ecological park for disputed Sapodilla Cays, and substantial US-UK financial package, but agreement was not brought to popular referendum leaving Guatemala to continue to claim the southern half of Belize intact; numbers of Guatemalans enter Mexico seeking work or transit to the US
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 74.33 % ... [15th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 31.2 % ... [36th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 7 per square km [62nd of 141]
Waterways 990 km [64th of 106]
Waterways > A note
260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during highwater season
Waterways > Note
260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season (2004)

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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; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala, Republica de Guatemala

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