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Beira Airport | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Aeroportos de Mocambique (Mozambique Airports Company) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Beira | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Beira, Mozambique | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 33 ft / 10 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°47′47″S034°54′27″E / 19.79639°S 34.90750°E | ||||||||||||||||||
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Beira Airport is an airport in Beira, Mozambique ( IATA : BEW, ICAO : FQBR). It has 3 asphalt runways.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Airlink | Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa |
| LAM Mozambique Airlines | Chimoio, Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo, Maputo, Nampula, Pemba, Tete |
| Moçambique Expresso | Maputo |
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Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city is Maputo.
The geography of Mozambique consists mostly of coastal lowlands with uplands in its center and high plateaus in the northwest. There are also mountains in the western portion. The country is located on the east coast of southern Africa, directly west of the island of Madagascar. Mozambique has a tropical climate with two seasons, a wet season from October to March and a dry season from April to September.
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The 2006 Mozambique earthquake occurred at 22:19 UTC on 22 February. It had a magnitude of 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale and caused 4 deaths and 36 injuries. The epicenter was near Machaze in Manica Province of southern Mozambique, just north of the Save River. It was the largest historical earthquake in Mozambique and the first earthquake in southern Africa to have an identified surface rupture.
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