Salar de Atacama Airport
El Salar Airport is a high elevation airport serving the mineral salt mining operations on the Salar de Atacama salt flat, in the Antofagasta Region of Chile.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Chile
- Also known as: “Aerodromo El Salar” and “SCSL”
Salar de Atacama Airport
- Categories: airport and transport
- Location: San Pedro de Atacama, El Loa, Antofagasta, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-23.6489° or 23° 38′ 56″ south
Longitude
-68.305° or 68° 18′ 18″ west
Elevation
2,304 metres (7,559 feet)
ICAO airport code
SCSL
Open location code
578H9M2V+CX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Salar de Atacama Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Salar de Atacama Airport”
- Japanese: “サラル・デ・アタカマ空港”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Salar de Atacama”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo El Salar”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Salar de Atacama”
- Swedish: “Salar de Atacama Airport”
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