Introduction
Which are the key means of transportation in Colombia? Colombia has transport systems like Rail, Air, Pipeline, etc, with Waterways of about 24,725 km (2019) (18,225 km navigable; the most important waterway, the River Magdalena, of which 1,092 km is navigable, is dredged regularly to ensure safe passage of cargo vessels and container barges). The Civil aircraft registration country code prefix is HJ, HK
Transportation in Colombia
| Number of Airports | 662 (2024) |
|---|---|
| Heliports | 55 (2024) |
| Pipelines | 4,991 km gas, 6,796 km oil, 3,429 km refined products (2013) |
| Railways | |
| Total | 2,141 km (2019) |
| Standard gauge | 150 km (2019) 1.435-m gauge |
| Narrow gauge | 1,991 km (2019) 0.914-m gauge |
| Roadways | |
| Total | 206,102 km (2022) |
| National air transport system | |
| Number of registered air carriers | 12 (2020) |
| Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers | 157 |
| Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers | 33,704,037 (2018) |
| Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers | 1,349,450,000 (2018) mt-km |
| Merchant marine | |
| Total | 153 (2023) |
| By type | general cargo 28, oil tanker 13, other 112 |
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