Transportation in Guatemala

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Transportation In Guatemala

Contents 1 Railways 1.1 Railway links with adjacent countries 2 Highways 3 Waterways 4 Pipelines 5 Ports and harbors 5.1 Atlantic Ocean 5.2 Pacific Ocean 6 Merchant marine 7 Airports 7.1 Airports - with paved runways 7.2 Airports - with unpaved runways 8 See also 9 Getting Around

[edit] Railways

See Rail transport in Guatemala

total:

• 322 km (200 miles) operated by RDC, freight only
• 563 km (350 miles) closed

narrow gauge: 884 km 0.914-m gauge (single track)

[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries

• Mexico - currently closed - break-of-gauge 914mm/1435 mm
• Belize - no
• Honduras - none in use - break-of-gauge 914mm/1067 mm (?)
• El Salvador - currently closed

[edit] Highways

• total: 14,095 km
• paved: 4,863 km (including 75 km of expressways)
• unpaved: 9,232 km (1999 est.)

[edit] Waterways

260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season

[edit] Pipelines

oil 480 km

[edit] Ports and harbors

[edit] Atlantic Ocean

• Puerto Barrios, Santo Tomás de Castilla

[edit] Pacific Ocean

• Champerico, Puerto Quetzal, Puerto San José

[edit] Merchant marine

none (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports

450 (2006 est.)

[edit] Airports - with paved runways

• total: 11
• 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
• 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
• 914 to 1,523 m: 4
• under 914 m: 2 (2006 est.)

[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways

• total: 439
• 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
• 1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
• 914 to 1,523 m: 111
• under 914 m: 319 (2006 est.)

[edit] See also

• Guatemala

[edit] Getting Around

Ground Transportation
The most common way of getting around is by bus or car. "Chicken buses", recycled and often colorfully painted former US school buses, are popular within cities and for short-distance trips. Some operators (such as Litegua between Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios, Fuente del Norte between Guatemala City and Flores, or Monja Blanca to Cobán) run modern air-conditioned buses for longer distances. Information on schedules of other lines is limited (e.g. [1]) and usually has to be obtained locally; however, as a rule, there are frequent services along major routes as well as to smaller settlements. There are no passenger trains. Private shuttles are common. Within cities and many towns, nimble tuk-tuks well-adapted to crowded streets and narrow lanes provide taxi service.

By Air
Guatemala's Airline TikalJets [2] - (Now defunct) offers non-stop service to Flores (Tikal).

Boats
Ferries are available in certain regions, such as Sayaxché or around Livingston.