rude oil 800 km; natural gas and natural gas liquids 64 km

Ports and harbors: Callao, Chimbote, Ilo, Matarani, Paita, Puerto
Maldonado, 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: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 29,470 GRT/45,451
DWT note: United States 1 (2002 est.) ships by type: cargo 4, petroleum
tanker 1

Airports: 239 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 47 over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047
m: 20 1,524 to 2,437 m: 13 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 1 (2001)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 192 1,524 to 2,437 m: 25 914
to 1,523 m: 65 under 914 m: 102 (2001)

Military Peru

Military branches: Army (Ejercito Peruano), Navy (Marina de Guerra
del Peru; includes Naval Air, Marines, and Coast Guard), Air Force
(Fuerza Aerea del Peru; FAP), National Police (includes General Police,
Security Police, and Technical Police)

Military manpower - military age: 17 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 7,356,395 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 4,944,952
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 276,458
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1 billion (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.8% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Peru

Disputes - international: dispute with Chile over the economic zone
delimited by the maritime boundary; Colombian drug activities penetrate
Peruvian border area

Illicit drugs: until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer;
emerging opium producer; Peru reduced the area of coca under cultivation
by 64% to 34,000 hectares between 1996 and the end of 2001; 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 1 January 2002

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Paracel Islands

Introduction

Paracel Islands

Background: This archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds
and by potential oil and gas reserve