Internet hosts:
19,027 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
31 (2001)

Internet users:
616,000 (2005)

Transportation Ecuador

Airports:
359 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 98
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 19
914 to 1,523 m: 29
under 914 m: 43 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 261
914 to 1,523 m: 33
under 914 m: 228 (2006)

Heliports:
1 (2006)

Pipelines:
extra heavy crude 578 km; gas 71 km; oil 1,386 km; refined products
1,185 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 966 km
narrow gauge: 966 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 43,197 km
paved: 6,467 km
unpaved: 36,730 km (2004)

Waterways:
1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 31 ships (1000 GRT or over) 184,819 GRT/300,339 DWT
by type: chemical tanker 1, liquefied gas 1, passenger 7, petroleum
tanker 21, specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: 2 (Norway 1, Paraguay 1)
registered in other countries: 1 (Georgia 1) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar

Military Ecuador

Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes naval infantry, naval aviation, coast guard),
Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana, FAE)

Military service age and obligation:
20 years of age for conscript military service; 12-month service
obligation (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 20-49: 2,792,770
females age 20-49: 2,849,519 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 20-49: 2,338,428
females age 20-49: 2,380,327 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 133,922
females age 20-49: 129,758 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$650 million (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2% (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues Ecuador

Disputes - international:
organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia penetrate across
Ecuador's shared border and caused over 20,000 refugees to flee into
Ecuador in 2004

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 9,851 (Colombia), note - UNHCR
estimates as many as 250,000 Columbians are seeking asylum in
Ecuador, many of whom do not register as refugees for fear of
deportation (2006)

Illicit drugs:
significant transit country for cocaine originating in Colombia and
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