Juan Mendoza Airport
Juan Mendoza Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Juan Mendoza) (IATA: ORU, ICAO: SLOR) is an extremely high elevation airport serving the city of Oruro, the capital of the Oruro Department in Bolivia.
Juan Mendoza Airport | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Summary | |||||||||||
Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Government | ||||||||||
Serves | Oruro, Bolivia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 12,146 ft / 3,702 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 17°57′45″S 67°04′34″W | ||||||||||
Map | |||||||||||
![]() ![]() ORU Location of the airport in Bolivia | |||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
The airport is in the eastern part of the city, which is in the altiplano of Bolivia. There is distant mountainous terrain east and west of the airport.[3]
The Oruro non-directional beacon (Ident: ORU) is located 0.9 nautical miles (1.7 km) west of the field. The Oruro VOR-DME (Ident: ORU) is located 0.49 nautical miles (0.91 km) off the displaced threshold of Runway 01.[4][1]
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
---|---|
Boliviana de Aviación | Santa Cruz de la Sierra–Viru Viru |
gollark: > In physics, the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state.I have no idea how this is relevant to anything I have said.
gollark: It's that you apparently don't care about the rest of the human population? At all?
gollark: So now we're going to talk about teleporters! Do they violate the no-cloning theorem?
gollark: What teleporter? I never mentioned a teleporter.
gollark: * kHt
References
- SkyVector - Juan Mendoza, Oruru VOR
- Airport information for Juan Mendoza Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- Google Maps - Juan Mendoza Airport
- Oruro NDB
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.