Urrao Airport

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Urrao Airport

Alí Piedrahita Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Serves Urrao
Elevation  AMSL 6,090 ft / 1,856 m
Coordinates 6°19′35″N76°08′25″W / 6.32639°N 76.14028°W / 6.32639; -76.14028
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Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
15/339153,002Asphalt
Sources: GCM [1]

Urrao Airport( IATA : URR, ICAO : SKUR) is an airport serving Urrao, a town in the Antioquia Department of Colombia. The runway and town are in an elevated mountain valley on the eastern bank of the small Penderisco River, an eventual tributary of the Atrato River.

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