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
Ciudad de Catamayo Airport
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

Accidents and incidents

See also

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.