El Amarillo Airport Spanish: Aeropuerto El Amarillo, (ICAO: SCEA) is an airstrip 21 kilometres (13 mi) east of Chaitén, a town in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The Carretera Austral runs through the hamlet of El Amarillo, and passes the south end of the runway.
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Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
Serves | Chaitén, Chile | ||||||||||
Location | El Amarillo | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,083 ft / 330 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°00′25″S 72°28′44″W / 43.00694°S 72.47889°W | ||||||||||
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The airstrip is at the junction of two valleys, one running eastward from Chaitén, and the other, the valley of the Amarillo River, a glacial fed stream running south from the Chaitén Volcano.
The valleys open up to the southwest, but there is mountainous terrain in all other quadrants. The runway has an additional 140 metres (460 ft) of unpaved overrun on the south end.
The Chaiten VOR-DME (Ident: TEN) is 20.4 nautical miles (37.8 km) west-northwest of the airstrip.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Airport record for El Amarillo Airport at Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03
- ^ "location of El Amarillo Airport" (Map). Google Maps. Google. 2013-09-03. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- ^ Airport information for El Amarillo Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ Chaiten VOR
External links
edit- OpenStreetMap - El Amarillo
- OurAirports - El Amarillo
- SkyVector - El Amarillo
- FallingRain - El Amarillo Airport
- Accident history for El Amarillo Airport at Aviation Safety Network