Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 5,433,565 (December 1997); mobile cellular: 1,800,229 (December 1998). Radio broadcast stations: AM 454, FM 34, shortwave 27 (1999). Radios: 21 million (1997). Television broadcast stations: 60 (includes seven low-power stations) (1997). Televisions: 4.59 million (1997). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 13 (1999).
Transportation: Railways: total: 3,380 km (1995). Highways: total: 115,564 km; paved: 13,868 km; unpaved: 101,696 km (1997 est.). Waterways: 18,140 km, navigable by river boats (April 1996). Ports and harbors: Bahia de Portete, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Cartagena, Leticia, Puerto Bolivar, San Andres, Santa Marta, Tumaco, Turbo. Airports: 1,101 (1999 est.).
Geography
Colombia, in the northwest part of South America, is the only country on that continent that borders both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is nearly equal in size to the combined areas of California and Texas. Colombia is bordered by Panama on the northwest, on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, and on the southwest by Peru and Ecuador. Through the western half of the country, three Andean ranges run north and south, merging into one at the Ecuadorian border. The eastern half is a low, jungle-covered plain, drained by spurs of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, inhabited mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indian tribes. The fertile plateau and valley of the eastern range are the most densely populated parts of the country.
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Colombia, in the northwest part of South America, is the only country on that continent that borders both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is nearly equal in size to the combined areas of California and Texas. Colombia is bordered by Panama on the northwest, on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, and on the southwest by Peru and Ecuador. Through the western half of the country, three Andean ranges run north and south, merging into one at the Ecuadorian border. The eastern half is a low, jungle-covered plain, drained by spurs of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, inhabited mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indian tribes. The fertile plateau and valley of the eastern range are the most densely populated parts of the country.