Alberto Lleras Camargo Airport

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Sogamoso Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Serves Sogamoso, Colombia
Elevation  AMSL 8,155 ft / 2,486 m
Coordinates 5°40′35″N72°58′12″W / 5.67639°N 72.97000°W / 5.67639; -72.97000
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SOX
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SOX
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Direction LengthSurface
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05/231,8756,152Asphalt
Source: GCM [1] Google Maps [2]

Alberto Lleras Camargo Airport( IATA : SOX, ICAO : SKSO) is a high-elevation airport 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of the city of Sogamoso in the Boyacá Department of Colombia.

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The airport and city lie in a broad valley between two north–south ridges of the eastern Colombian Andes mountains. The Sogamoso non-directional beacon (Ident: SOG) is located on the field. [3]

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