Copacabana Airport

Copacabana Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Copacabana, (ICAO: SLCC)) is an extremely high elevation airport serving Copacabana, a town on Lake Titicaca in the La Paz Department of Bolivia.

Copacabana Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesCopacabana, Bolivia
Elevation AMSL12,591 ft / 3,838 m
Coordinates16°11′25″S 69°05′40″W
Map
SLCC
Location of Copacabana Airport in Bolivia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,000 6,562 Gravel
Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps[2] GCM[3]

Town and airport are on a peninsula connected to Peru, with no land connection with Bolivia. The runway is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the town, in a dead-end valley that opens onto the lake. There is rising terrain in all quadrants except west-southwest, over the lake.

See also

References

  1. Airport record for Copacabana Airport at Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-09-02
  2. Google (2013-09-02). "location of Copacabana Airport" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  3. Airport information for Copacabana Airport at Great Circle Mapper.


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