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Curuzú Cuatiá Airport
Curuzú Cuatiá Airport is an airport serving Curuzú Cuatiá, Corrientes, Argentina. See also * * *List of airports in Argentina This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location. Airports ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports. Airport names shown in bol ... References External links * Airports in Corrientes Province {{Argentina-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curuzú Cuatiá
Curuzú Cuatiá is a city in the south of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It had about 34,000 inhabitants at the , and is the head town of the Curuzú Cuatiá Department. The area has an undulated terrain, with many small rivers and streams that empty into the Paraná River in the west, or into the Uruguay River in the east. The climate is wet subtropical, with uniformly distributed annual rainfall of 1,200 mm on average. The average temperatures are 14.5 °C (winter) and 26 °C (summer), with recorded extremes of −3 °C and 44 °C respectively. The city is served by an airport , located at . History The name ''Curuzú Cuatiá'' is of Guaraní origin and means "Engraved Cross". The early settlers ( Spanish ''conquistadores'' and Jesuit missionaries from Uruguay) called it ''Posta de Cruz'' since the site was a crossroads, marked by a large cross with an inscription. After the May Revolution that initiated the struggle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and Tarmacadam, tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface road surface, roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures have been used in pavement construction since the nineteenth century. It consists of Construction aggregate, mineral aggregate Binder (material), bound together with bitumen (a substance also independently known as asphalt, Pitch (resin), pitch, or tar), laid in layers, and compacted. The American English terms ''asphalt'' (or ''asphaltic'') ''concrete'', ''bituminous asphalt concrete'', and ''bituminous mixture'' are typically used only in engineering and construction documents, which define concrete as any composite material composed of mineral aggregate adhered with a binder. The abbreviation, ''AC'', is sometimes used for ''asphalt concrete'' but can also denot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrientes Province
Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; ), officially the Province of Corrientes (; ) is a Provinces of Argentina, province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia, Argentina, Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the north, clockwise): Paraguay, the province of Misiones Province, Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Ríos Province, Entre Rios, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe and Chaco Province, Chaco. History Before the arrival of the Spanish conquest, the Kaingang people, Kaingang, Charrua and Guarani people, Guaraní lived in a big area that also covered most of the current province of Corrientes. The city of Corrientes was founded on 3 April 1588 by Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón as a mid-stop between Asunción and Buenos Aires; the city flourished thanks to the traffic from the route. Society of Jesus, Jesuits erected Missionary, missions in the north of the province, where they dedicated themselves to the expansion of the faith. In the wars of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the List of countries and dependencies by area, eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a Federation, federal state subdivided into twenty-three Provinces of Argentina, provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and List of cities in Argentina by population, largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a Federalism, federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Airports In Argentina
This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location. Airports ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports. Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. See also * Transportation in Argentina * Argentine Air Force * List of airports in Argentina by ICAO code * List of airline destinations in Argentina References *AIP Argentina*Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos (ORSNA)Aeropuertos Argentina 2000Airports in Argentinafrom enjoy-Argentina.org Great Circle Mapper Airports in Argentina reference for airport codes * , reference for coordinates * * - includes IATA codes * {{South America in topic, List of airports in, state=expand Argentina Airports Airports Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAFIF
The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File or DAFIF () is a comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data, including information on airports, airways, airspaces, navigation data, and other facts relevant to flying in the entire world, managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the United States. Withdrawal of public access DAFIF was publicly available until October 2006 through the Internet; however, it was closed to public access because "increased numbers of foreign source providers are claiming intellectual property rights or are forewarning NGA that they intend to copyright their source". Currently, only federal and state government agencies, authorized government contractors, and Department of Defense customers are able to access the DAFIF data. At the time of the announcement, the NGA did not say who the "foreign source providers" were. It was subsequently revealed that the Australian Government was behind the move. The Australian gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
