Infrastructure — Costa Rica
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Costa Rica: 161
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Transportation
- Airports - total
161
- Airports with Paved Runways
47
- Railways
173 Miles 278 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
24,245 Miles 39,018 Kilometers
- Waterways
454 Miles 730 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto Quepos, Puntarenas
Communications
- Telephones
1,493,000
- Cell Phones
1,503,000
- Internet Users
1,500,000
- Internet Country Code
.cr
- Internet Hosts
34,024
- Broadcast Media
- multiple privately owned TV stations and 1 publicly owned TV station
- cable network services are widely available
- more than 100 privately owned radio stations and a public radio network
- Telephone System
- general assessment: good domestic telephone service in terms of breadth of coverage; under the terms of CAFTA-DR, the state-run telecommunications monopoly is scheduled to be opened to competition from domestic and international firms,
- but has been slow to open to competition domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas;
- Internet service is available international: country code - 506; landing points for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1), MAYA-1, and the Pan American Crossing submarine cables that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
8,250,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
77,160,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
203,200,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
9,290,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
50,200
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
10,040