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icity--consumption: 16.211 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, wheat, potatoes, plantains, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products, wool; fish Exports: $6.8 billion (f.o.b., 1997) Exports--commodities: copper, zinc, fishmeal, crude petroleum and byproducts, lead, refined silver, coffee, cotton Exports--partners: US 20%, Japan 7%, UK 7%, China 7%, Germany 5% (1996) Imports: $10.3 billion (c.i.f., 1997) Imports--commodities: machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals Imports--partners: US 31%, Colombia 7%, Chile 6%, Venezuela 6%, UK 6% (1996) Debt--external: $25.7 billion (1996 est.) Economic aid--recipient: $895.1 million (1995) Currency: 1 nuevo sol (S/.) = 100 centimos Exchange rates: nuevo sol (S/.) per US$1--3.250 (January 1999), 2.930 (1998), 2.664 (1997), 2.453 (1996), 2.253 (1995), 2.195 (1994) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 779,306 (1990 est.) Telephone system: adequate for most requirements domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 273, FM 0, shortwave 144 Radios: 5.7 million (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 13 (in addition, there are 112 repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 2 million (1993 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 2,041 km standard gauge: 1,726 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 315 km 0.914-m gauge (1997) Highways: total: 72,146 km paved: 7,353 km unpaved: 64,793 km (1998 est.) Waterways: 8,600 km of navigable tributaries of Amazon system and 208 km of Lago Titicaca Pipelines: crude 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: total: 7 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 51,518 GRT/75,018 DWT ships by type: cargo 6, oil tanker 1 (1998 est.) Airports: 244 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 44 over 3,047 m: 7 2,438 to 3,047 m: 15 1,524 t
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