| José María Velasco Ibarra Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Macará, Ecuador | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,508 ft / 460 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 04°22′45″S79°56′29″W / 4.37917°S 79.94139°W | ||||||||||
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  MRR Location of the airport in Ecuador | |||||||||||
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José María Velasco Ibarra Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto J.M. Velasco Ibarra) ( IATA : MRR, ICAO : SEMA) is an airport serving Macará, a city in the Loja Province of Ecuador. Macará is on Ecuador's border with Peru.
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.
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The airport is named for José María Velasco Ibarra, a former president of Ecuador.
José María Velasco Ibarra was an Ecuadorian politician. He became president of Ecuador five times, in 1934–1935, 1944–1947, 1952–1956, 1960–1961, and 1968–1972, and only in 1952–1956 did he complete a full term. In his four other terms he was removed by military force, and several times he was installed as president through a military coup.
The airport is within the city, and has mountainous terrain north, and rising terrain in all other quadrants. The Macara non-directional beacon (Ident: MAC) is located on the field. [4]
A non-directional (radio) beacon (NDB) is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) and TACAN. NDB signals follow the curvature of the Earth, so they can be received at much greater distances at lower altitudes, a major advantage over VOR. However, NDB signals are also affected more by atmospheric conditions, mountainous terrain, coastal refraction and electrical storms, particularly at long range.
The airport (José María Velasco Ibarra) is not in service since 2010.
