Pelicano Airport
Pelicano Airport Spanish: Aeropuerto Pelicano, is a desert airport near Estación Chañar, La Higuera, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. The airport serves the astronomy community of the Las Campanas Observatory, one of the high elevation observatories in the Atacama Desert.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Chile
- Also known as: “Aeródromo El Pelícano” and “SCEC”
Pelicano Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: La Higuera, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-29.13906° or 29° 8′ 21″ south
Longitude
-70.88565° or 70° 53′ 8″ west
Elevation
1,125 metres (3,691 feet)
ICAO airport code
SCEC
Open location code
572FV467+9P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pelicano Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pelicano Airport”
- Indonesian: “SCEC”
- Japanese: “ペリカノ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Pelicano”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Pelicano”
- Spanish: “Aerodromo Pelicano”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Pelícano”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Pelicano”
- Swedish: “Pelicano Airport”
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