Tiputini Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tiputini | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 997 ft / 304 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 0°46′35″S75°31′45″W / 0.77639°S 75.52917°W Coordinates: 0°46′35″S75°31′45″W / 0.77639°S 75.52917°W | ||||||||||
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  TPN Location of the airport in Ecuador | |||||||||||
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Tiputini Airport( IATA : TPN, ICAO : SETI) is an airport serving the Napo River village of Tiputini in Orellana Province, Ecuador.
The Tiputini non-directional beacon (ident: TPU) is on the field. [3]
TPN may refer to:
Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) is a scientific field research center in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It was established in 1995 by Universidad San Francisco de Quito in collaboration with Boston University, and is jointly managed by them as a center of education, research and conservation. A higher diversity of reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds and bats has been found there than anywhere else in South America, and possibly the world. It is located in the province of Orellana, about 280 km ESE from Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It is located on the northern bank of the Tiputini River, and although separated from the Yasuní National Park by the river, the station forms part of the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve.
The Tiputini River is a tributary of the Napo River in eastern Ecuador. It is the first major, navagable river south of the Napo and forms the northern border of Yasuni National Park. Unlike the Napo, the Tiputini has a relatively deep, narrow channel carved deep into the clay of the Amazon Basin, and it often fluctuates in depth by several meters from day to day.
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