| Ulla Ulla Airport Franz Tamayo Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ulla Ulla | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 14,360 ft / 4,377 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 15°02′10″S69°15′20″W / 15.03611°S 69.25556°W Coordinates: 15°02′10″S69°15′20″W / 15.03611°S 69.25556°W | ||||||||||
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  SLUU Location of Franz Tamayo Airport in Bolivia | |||||||||||
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Ulla Ulla Airport( ICAO : SLUU) is an extremely-high elevation airport 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Ulla Ulla village in the La Paz Department of Bolivia. Ulla Ulla is close to the Peruvian border north of Lake Titicaca.
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.
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.
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While the entire region is mountainous, the airport is on an alluvial fan of the Cordillera Apolobamba mountains, with no hazardous terrain nearby. It also shares use as a road.
Alluvial fans are triangular-shaped deposits of water-transported material, often referred to as alluvium. They are an example of an unconsolidated sedimentary deposit and tend to be larger and more prominent in arid to semi-arid regions. These alluvial fans typically form in elevated or even mountainous regions where there is a rapid change in slope from a high to low gradient. The river or stream carrying the sediment flows at a relatively high velocity due to the high slope angle which is why coarse material is able to remain in the flow. When the slope decreases rapidly into a relatively plain or plateau, the stream loses the energy it needs to move its sediment. Deposition subsequently occurs and the sediment ultimately spreads out, creating an alluvial fan. Three primary zones occur within an alluvial fan which includes the proximal fan, medial fan, and the distal fan.
Apolobamba(Cordillera Apolobamba) is a mountain range in the South American Andes.
