| El Troncal Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Arauquita, Colombia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 512 ft / 156 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 7°01′16″N71°23′20″W / 7.02111°N 71.38889°W Coordinates: 7°01′16″N71°23′20″W / 7.02111°N 71.38889°W | ||||||||||
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  ARQ Location of the airport in Colombia | |||||||||||
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El Troncal Airport( IATA : ARQ, ICAO : SKAT) is an airport serving the river town of Arauquita in the Arauca Department of Colombia.
An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The characters prominently displayed on baggage tags attached at airport check-in desks are an example of a way these codes are used.
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.
Arauquita is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department, Colombia.
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The runway is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Arauquita, adjacent to the Arauca River. East departures will cross the river into Venezuela.
The Arauca River rises in the Andes Mountains of north-central Colombia and ends at the Orinoco in Venezuela. For part of its run it is the boundary between Colombia and Venezuela. The major city on its banks is Arauca, Colombia and El Amparo, Venezuela.
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and a large number of small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km2. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. With this last country, the Venezuelan government maintains a claim for Guayana Esequiba over an area of 159,542 km2. For its maritime areas, it exercises sovereignty over 71,295 km2 of territorial waters, 22,224 km2 in its contiguous zone, 471,507 km2 of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean under the concept of exclusive economic zone, and 99,889 km2 of continental shelf. This marine area borders those of 13 states. The country has extremely high biodiversity and is ranked seventh in the world's list of nations with the most number of species. There are habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon basin rain-forest in the south via extensive llanos plains, the Caribbean coast and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
