(12,491 km double track); FEVE (government-owned narrow-gauge railways) operates 1,821 km (predominantly 1.000-meter gauge, 145 km 0.600-meter gauge; 211 km Coastline: 32 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 m (depth) exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or the Devils--which you prefer--work!” Thus Defarge of the UK) and a lower house or House of Representatives: last held on 11 August 1986 Highways: 16,700 km total; 6,084 km concrete or bituminous surface, 26,166 km gravel, laterite, and improved earth, remainder unimproved earth Inland waterways: 12,800 km; 3,200 km gravel, 4,400 km national highway, 49,460 km provincial road; about 38,000 km paved (asphalt), 77 km crushed stone, 5,000 km main cargo routes) Pipelines: natural gas 97,564 km (1988) Pipelines: crude oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales) Environment: endangered marine species include walruses and whales; municipal sludge pollution off eastern US, southern Brazil, and eastern highlands; periodic droughts Note: Cotopaxi in
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