| Gran Cañon Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Serves | Carrizal Bajo, Chile | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 230 ft / 70 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°05′57″S71°08′45″W / 28.09917°S 71.14583°W Coordinates: 28°05′57″S71°08′45″W / 28.09917°S 71.14583°W | ||||||||||
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  SCHU Location of Gran Cañon Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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Gran Cañon Airport Spanish : Aeropuerto de Gran Cañon, ( ICAO : SCHU) is an airstrip serving Carrizal Bajo, a Pacific coastal village in the Atacama Region of Chile. Carrizal Bajo is 41 kilometres (25 mi) north of Huasco.
Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
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.
Carrizal Bajo is a harbour and village in Atacama Region, Chile, located about 50 km north of the city of Huasco. Between May and August 1986 the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, the armed wing of the Communist Party of Chile, used the port to smuggle in weapons from Cuban ships anchored offshore. This was the largest weapon smuggle move during the whole military dictatorship period (1973–1990) in Chile and while most of the weapons were discovered by authorities some were moved to other parts of the country and came notably to be used in the 1986 assassination attempt on Augusto Pinochet. The weapons interned were US weapons obtained by Cuba from Vietnam.
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There is rising terrain east of the airstrip.
