Fatima Airport

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Fatima Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Serves Fatima, Bolivia
Elevation  AMSL 1,000 ft / 305 m
Coordinates 15°27′10″S66°44′44″W / 15.45278°S 66.74556°W / -15.45278; -66.74556 Coordinates: 15°27′10″S66°44′44″W / 15.45278°S 66.74556°W / -15.45278; -66.74556
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SLFA
Location of the airport in Bolivia
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Direction LengthSurface
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03/211,0003,281Grass
Sources: GCM [1] Google Maps [2]

Fatima Airport( ICAO : SLFA) is an airport serving the mission village of Fatima in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The runway extends northeast from the mission, within a bend of the small Chimanes River, which shortly feeds into the Rapulo River. There are no roads into Fatima.

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The Fatima Mission tends to the needs of the Tsimane, an isolated tribe of Bolivian Amerindians in the eastern Andes foothills. [3]

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