Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

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Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Serves Loja, Ecuador
Location Catamayo
Elevation  AMSL 4,056 ft / 1,236 m
Coordinates 03°59′45″S79°22′20″W / 3.99583°S 79.37222°W / -3.99583; -79.37222
Map
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LOH
Location of airport in Ecuador
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
07/252,0006,562Asphalt
Sources: GCM [1] Google Maps [2]

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport, formerly known as Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport( IATA : LOH, ICAO : SECA) is an airport serving Loja, the capital of the Loja Province in southern Ecuador. Its name was changed from Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (after a former president of the country) to Ciudad de Catamayo Airport on 13 May 2013. [3] [4]

Contents

The airport is at Catamayo, a city in a mountain valley 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Loja. There is rising terrain south of the airport, and mountainous terrain in all other quadrants. The Loja non-directional beacon (Ident: LOJ) is located on the field. [5] Several sources still list the airport ICAO code as SETM.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroregional Quito
Seasonal Charter: Panama City–Balboa

Accidents and incidents

See also

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References

  1. Airport information for LOH at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. Google Maps - Catamayo
  3. News Agency Andes, Monday May 13, 2013: Ciudad de Catamayo is the new official of the airport of Loja
  4. Newspaper El Comercio, Monday May 13, 2013: Ciudad de Catamayo is the new of the airport of Loja Archived 2014-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Loja NDB
  6. Aviation Safety Network Accident Description
  7. "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 8 October 2009.