Alcides Fernández Airport is a commercial airport on the Caribbean coast serving to town of

Acandí Acandí is a town in Colombia at the northern extremity of the department of Chocó in the northwest of Colombia, bordering Panama and the Caribbean Sea. It is from the department's capital, Quibdó. Its average temperature is . It was founded a ...

in the Choco Department of Colombia. The airport is considered by residents of the town of Acandí to be an important link between that community and the rest of Colombia as well as neighboring

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

. The airport was closed for some time during the early 2000s, as tourism to Acandí suffered a downturn. Acandí's mayor paid $30,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately US$12,500) to enlarge the airport's runway and build better terminal facilities. The Colombian government paid a total of $1,500,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately US$630,500) to aide in the renovation of the airport as part of

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. In 2003, Colombian transportation minister Andres Uriel Gallego and Colombia's Civil Aeronautics minister Juan Carlos Velez re-opened the airport to public flights after renovation was completed. Prior to its closing, the airport was served by

Aerolínea de Antioquia ADA S.A., operating as Aerolínea de Antioquia (ADA), was a regional airline headquartered at the Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, Colombia. It started operations in 1987. It ceased all operations on March 29, 2019. At its peak, the airline o ...

and

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both of which flew 19 seat passenger aircraft to the airport.

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OpenStreetMap - Acandí
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Colombia–Panama border crossings Buildings and structures in Chocó Department {{Colombia-airport-stub

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