Transportation in Honduras
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Transportation in Honduras refers to transport in Honduras, a country in Central America.
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[edit] Railways
Main article: Rail transport in Honduras
- total: 595 km
- narrow gauge: 349 km
- 1.067-m gauge: 246 km
- 0.914-m gauge (1999)
[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries
- El Salvador - no
- Guatemala - none in use - break-of-gauge 914mm/1067 mm (?) [1]
- Nicaragua - no
[edit] Highways
- total: 15,400 km
- paved: 3,126 km
- unpaved: 12,274 km (1999 est.)
[edit] Waterways
465 km navigable by small craft
[edit] Ports and harbors
[edit] Atlantic Ocean
[edit] Pacific Ocean
- San Lorenzo
[edit] Other
[edit] Merchant marine
- total: 306 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 848,150 GRT/980,995 DWT
- ships by type:
bulk 26, cargo 187, chemical tanker 5, container 7, livestock carrier 1, passenger 2, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 43, refrigerated cargo 15, roll-on/roll-off 9, short-sea passenger 5, vehicle carrier 2 (1999 est.)
note: a flag of convenience registry; Russia owns 6 ships, Vietnam 1, Singapore 3, North Korea 1 (1998 est.)
[edit] Airports
119 (1999 est.)
- Principle International airports: San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa,
- Other International Airports: Roatan, La Ceiba
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
- total: 12
- 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
- 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
- 914 to 1,523 m: 4
- under 914 m: 3 (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
- total: 107
- 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
- 914 to 1,523 m: 21
- under 914 m: 84 (1999 est.)
[edit] See also
Antigua and Barbuda • Bahamas • Barbados • Belize • Canada • Costa Rica • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • El Salvador • Grenada • Guatemala • Haiti • Honduras • Jamaica • Mexico • Nicaragua • Panama • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • United States
Dependencies and other territories
Anguilla • Aruba • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Greenland • Guadeloupe • Martinique • Montserrat • Navassa Island • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint-Pierre and Miquelon • Turks and Caicos Islands • U.S. Virgin Islands
This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.