aldonado,
Salaverry, San Martin, Talara, Iquitos, Pucallpa, Yurimaguas
note: Iquitos, Pucallpa, and Yurimaguas are all on the upper reaches
of the Amazon and its tributaries

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 13,666 GRT/17,611 DWT
foreign-owned: United States 1
registered in other countries: 19 (2004 est.)
by type: cargo 2, petroleum tanker 1

Airports:
233 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 52
over 3,047 m: 5
2,438 to 3,047 m: 20
914 to 1,523 m: 9
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 16

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 182
1,524 to 2,437 m: 21
914 to 1,523 m: 62
under 914 m: 99 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
1 (2003 est.)

Military Peru

Military branches:
Army (Ejercito Peruano), Navy (Marina de Guerra del Peru; includes
Naval Air, Naval Infantry, and Coast Guard), Air Force (Fuerza Aerea
del Peru; FAP)

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service (1999)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 7,374,187 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 4,938,512 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 277,931 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$829.4 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.3% (2003)

Transnational Issues Peru

Disputes - international:
Bolivia has reanimated its claim to restore the Atacama corridor
ceded to Chile and adjoining Peru in 1884 to secure sovereign
maritime assess for Bolivian natural gas

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous
peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer; emerging opium
producer; cultivation of coca in Peru fell 15 percent to 31,150
hectares between 2002 and the end of 2003; much of the cocaine base
is shipped to neighboring Colombia for processing into cocaine,
while finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the
international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished
cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil and Bolivia for use in
the Southern Cone or transshipped to Europe and Africa

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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