Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas Airport
Tres Quebradas Airport is an extremely high elevation airport serving mining operations in the Atacama Region of Chile, near the Argentina border. The runway is in the narrow valley of the Del Tránsito River, an eventual tributary of the Huasco River.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Chile
- Also known as: “Aerodromo Tres Quebradas”, “SCTQ”, and “Tres Quebradas Airport”
Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas Airport
- Categories: airport and transport
- Location: Alto del Carmen, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-29.25921° or 29° 15′ 33″ south
Longitude
-70.08799° or 70° 5′ 17″ west
Elevation
3,567 metres (11,703 feet)
ICAO airport code
SCTQ
Open location code
572FPWR6+8R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas Airport”
- Japanese: “アルト・デル・カルメン・トレス・ケブラーダス空港”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Tres Quebradas”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas”
- Swedish: “Alto del Carmen Tres Quebradas Airport”
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