| El Salar Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Salar de Atacama | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 7,550 ft / 2,301 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 23°38′56″S68°18′20″W / 23.64889°S 68.30556°W Coordinates: 23°38′56″S68°18′20″W / 23.64889°S 68.30556°W | ||||||||||
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  SCSL Location of El Salar Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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El Salar Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto El Salar, ( ICAO : SCSL)) is a high elevation airport serving the mineral salt mining operations on the Salar de Atacama salt flat, in the Antofagasta Region of Chile.
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western 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.
Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile. It is located 55 km (34 mi) south of San Pedro de Atacama, is surrounded by mountains, and has no drainage outlets. In the east it is enclosed by the main chain of the Andes, while to the west lies a secondary mountain range of the Andes called Cordillera de Domeyko. Large volcanoes dominate the landscape, including the Licancabur, Acamarachi, Aguas Calientes and the Láscar. The last is one of the most active volcanoes in Chile. All of them are located along the eastern side of the Salar de Atacama, forming a generally north-south trending line of volcanoes that separate it from smaller endorheic basins.
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(In several databases the airport has the incorrect ICAO code SCSI.)
