Juanchaco Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Juanchaco, Colombia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 47 ft / 14 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 3°56′10″N77°21′43″W / 3.93611°N 77.36194°W Coordinates: 3°56′10″N77°21′43″W / 3.93611°N 77.36194°W | ||||||||||
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  SKJC Location of the airport in Colombia | |||||||||||
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Juanchaco Airport( ICAO : SKJC) is an airport serving the Pacific coast village of Juanchaco in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia.
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.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
Valle del Cauca, or Cauca Valley is a department of Colombia. It is on the western side of the country, abutting the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Santiago de Cali. Such other cities as Buenaventura, Cartago and Tuluá have great economical, political, social and cultural influence on the department's life. Valle del Cauca has the largest number of independent towns with over 100,000 inhabitants in the country, counting six within its borders. Buenaventura has the largest and busiest seaport in Colombia, moving about 8,500,000 tons of merchandise annually.
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The airport is at the end of a peninsula above Málaga Bay, [3] and south approaches and departures are over the water.
A peninsula is a landform surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as a single body of water. Peninsulas are not always named as such; one can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the loop of water. In English, the plural versions of peninsula are peninsulas and, less commonly, peninsulae.
