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Currency code: VEB
Exchange rates: bolivares per US dollar - 699.700 (January 2001),
679.960 (2000), 605.717 (1999), 547.556 (1998), 488.635 (1997),
417.333 (1996)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Venezuela Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 2,600,000.00; however, 3,500,000
were installed (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2 million (1998)
Telephone system: general assessment: modern and expanding
domestic: domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations; recent
substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas;
substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines;
installation of a national interurban fiber-optic network capable of
digital multimedia services
international: 3 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations
- 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an
international fiber-optic network
Radio broadcast stations: AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave
11 (1998)
Radios: 10.75 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions: 4.1 million (1997)
Internet country code: .ve
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)
Internet users: 400,000 (2000)
Venezuela Transportation
Railways: total: 584 km (248 km privately owned)
standard gauge: 584 km 1.435-m gauge
Highways: total: 96,155 km
paved: 32,308 km
unpaved: 63,847 km (1997 est.)
Waterways: 7,100 km
note: Rio Orinoco and Lago de Maracaibo accept oceangoing vessels
Pipelines: crude oil 6,370 km; petroleum products 480 km; natural
gas 4,010 km
Ports and harbors: Amuay, Bajo Grande, El Tablazo, La Guaira, La
Salina, Maracaibo, Matanzas, Palua, Puerto Cabello, Puerto la Cruz,
Puerto Ordaz, Puerto Sucre, Punta Cardon
Merchant marine: total: 36 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
490,160 GRT/897,694 DWT
ships by type: bulk 7, cargo 10, liquefied gas 2, passenger/cargo
1, petroleum tanker 7, roll on/roll off 8, short-sea passenger 1
(2000 est.)
Airports: 371 (2000 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 124
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 32
914 to 1,523 m: 59
under 914 m: 17 (2000 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 247
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 97
under 914 m: 140 (2000 est.)
Heliports: 1 (2000 est.)
Venezuela Militar
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