New Quito International Airport
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The New Quito International Airport is an airport being built in the Tababela parish, about 20 km east of Quito
, Ecuador
, to replace Mariscal Sucre International Airport
. Work on the facility began in 2006 and is expected to be completed by November 2011. A renegociation of the financing contract for the airport was signed on 9 August 2010.
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, to replace Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Mariscal Sucre International Airport is the international airport serving Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It is named after Venezuelan born Antonio José de Sucre, known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" , a hero of Ecuadorian and Latin American independence...
. Work on the facility began in 2006 and is expected to be completed by November 2011. A renegociation of the financing contract for the airport was signed on 9 August 2010.
External links
- New Quito International Airport: Main Information. Quiport Corporation. Retrieved April 12, 2009.
- New Airport: A Door to Development. Corpaq - Quito Airport Corporation. Retrieved April 12, 2009.