Mariquita Airport
Encyclopedia
Mariquita Airport is an airport
serving Mariquita
, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia
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of 1531 feet (467 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 01/19 with an asphalt
surface measuring 5905 by 164 ft (1,799.8 by 50 ).
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 Mariquita
Mariquita, Tolima
San Sebastian de Mariquita is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia, about north of 180 km from Bogotá. This town and municipality contains several very Important Spanish settlements that were located here due to its vicinity to the Magdalena River...
, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
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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 1531 feet (467 m) 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 01/19 with an asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 5905 by 164 ft (1,799.8 by 50 ).