| Alberto Santos Dumont Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tiltil, Chile | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,346 ft / 715 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°01′45″S70°52′48″W / 33.02917°S 70.88000°W Coordinates: 33°01′45″S70°52′48″W / 33.02917°S 70.88000°W | ||||||||||
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  SCSA Location of Alberto Santos Dumont Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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Alberto Santos Dumont Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto de Alberto Santos Dumont, ( ICAO : SCSA)) is an airport serving Tiltil, a town in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. The airport is named in honor of Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviation pioneer.
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Tiltil or Til-Til is a Chilean municipality and city, in the Chacabuco Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Tiltil is most known for being an execution place for rebels during Chile's independence war against Spain. Manuel Rodríguez was executed in Tiltil.
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The airport is 48 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Santiago. There is high terrain northeast and northwest.
Santiago, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's largest and most densely populated conurbation, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 7 million. The city is entirely located in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between 500 m (1,640 ft) and 650 m (2,133 ft) above mean sea level.
