Guápiles Airport
Encyclopedia
Guápiles Airport is an airport
serving Guápiles, located in Pococí
canton, Limón
province, Costa Rica
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of 269 metres (883 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 03/21 with a concrete
surface measuring 1100 by 10 m (3,608.9 by 32.8 ).
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving Guápiles, located in Pococí
Pococí Canton
Pococí is the name of the second canton in the province of Limón in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 2,403.49 km², making it the third largest of Costa Rica's 81 cantons. It has a population of 111,201, making it eighth-ranked...
canton, Limón
Limón Province
Limón is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica. The majority of its territory is situated in the country's Caribbean lowlands, though the southwestern portion houses part of an extensive mountain range known as the Cordillera de Talamanca...
province, Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
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Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 269 metres (883 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 03/21 with a concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
surface measuring 1100 by 10 m (3,608.9 by 32.8 ).