Amapala Airport is an
airstrip serving the town of
Amapala
Amapala is a municipality in the Honduran department of Valle.
It is formed by El Tigre Island and its satellite islets and rocks in the Gulf of Fonseca. It has an area of and a population of 2,482 as of the census of 2001 (of which 4 people ...
on
El Tigre Island
El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America. The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department. Together wit ...
, a volcanic island in the
Gulf of Fonseca,
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
.
The runway is at the foot of the volcano, on the northeast side of the island, east of Amapala.
The Toncontin
VOR-DME (Ident: TNT) is located north-northeast of the airstrip.
See also
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Transport in Honduras
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List of airports in Honduras
References
External links
FallingRain - Amapala AirportOpenStreetMap - Amapala
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Defunct airports
Airports in Honduras
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