Cerro Paranal Airport
Cerro Paranal Airport is a desert airport 6 kilometres east-southeast of Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta, Chile. It serves the Paranal Observatory and Cerro Armazones Observatory scientific complexes. There is rising terrain west of the airport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Chile
- Also known as: “Paranal Airport” and “SCPA”
Cerro Paranal Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-24.63957° or 24° 38′ 23″ southLongitude
-70.34859° or 70° 20′ 55″ westElevation
2,068 metres (6,785 feet)ICAO airport code
SCPAOpen location code
577F9M62+5HOpenStreetMap ID
way 103170796OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
8990010Wikidata ID
Q16858758
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cerro Paranal Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cerro Paranal Airport”
- Indonesian: “SCPA”
- Japanese: “セロ・パラナル空港”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Cerro Paranal”
- Spanish: “Aerodromo Paranal”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Paranal”
- Swedish: “Cerro Paranal Airport”
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