Fatima Airport
Fatima Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Serves | , Bolivia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,000 ft / 305 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 15°27′10″S 66°44′44″W / 15.45278°S 66.74556°WCoordinates: 15°27′10″S 66°44′44″W / 15.45278°S 66.74556°W | ||||||||||
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![]() ![]() SLFA Location of the airport in Bolivia | |||||||||||
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Fatima Airport (ICAO: SLFA) is an airport serving the mission village of in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The runway extends northeast from the mission, within a bend of the small Chimanes River, which shortly feeds into the Rapulo River. There are no roads into Fatima.
The Fatima Mission tends to the needs of the Tsimane, an isolated tribe of Bolivian Amerindians in the eastern Andes foothills.[3]
See also[]
Bolivia portal
Aviation portal
- Transport in Bolivia
- List of airports in Bolivia
References[]
- ^ Airport information for Fatima Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ Google Maps - Fatima
- ^ http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/gurvenetal2007AJHB.pdf Tsimane mortality study
External links[]
- OpenStreetMap - Fatima
- OurAirports - Fatima
- FallingRain - Fatima Airport
- HERE/Nokia - Fatima
- Accident history for Fatima Airport at Aviation Safety Network
Categories:
- Airports in Bolivia
- Bolivia stubs
- Bolivian airport stubs