TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
Their main and more economic communication roads have been the fluvial ones. Paraguay has a mediterranean situation between two big rivers, the one that gives name to the country and the Paraná that it ends in the River of the Silver. January of 1967, 29 Paraguay and Argentina ratified the principle of free sailing in both fluvial courses for ships of both countries. The inadequacy of highways (28.067 km. in 1992) and railroads (441 km. in 1992 - the railroad stopped to work in 1999) it is compensated partly with the importance of the air routes, at least in what refers to the transport of passengers.
The country has 2.672 km. of routes you pave and 27.015 of roads enripiados and terraced (1993). Also bill with a tract of the Pan-American highway and of the freeway Trans-Chaco that unites Asunción's city with Bolivia. It prepares besides an international airline (TAM Mercosur), three local lines (TAM, LATN, HARP), two international airports (Silvio Pettirosi in Asunción and Guarani in City of the East) and aerodromes in the main cities of the interior.
The country counts with near 300.000 lines of fixed telephony and more than 800.000 lines of mobile telephony, four open television channels and several chains of TV for cable with around 200.000 subscribers. There are also hundreds of radio stations national and local reach radiofónicos and four newspapers of national reach: ABC Color, Noticias, Ultima Hora , El Popular and La Nación.
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