Araracuara Airport is an airport serving
Araracuara, in the
Caquetá Department
Caquetá Department () is a department of Colombia. Located in the Amazonas region, Caquetá borders with the departments of Cauca and Huila to the west, the department of Meta to the north, the department of Guaviare to the northeast, the d ...
of
Colombia
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. Araracuara was the site of a former penal colony for Colombia's worst and most dangerous criminals.
The town and airport are on the north bank of the
Caquetá River Caquetá may refer to:
* Caquetá River, a river in Colombia
* Caquetá Territory
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, an eventual tributary of the
Amazon River
The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.
The headwaters of t ...
.
The Araracuara
non-directional beacon
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(Ident: ARA) is located just south of the airport.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
*On 6 September 2014, ten people were killed when a twin-engine
Piper PA-31 Navajo
The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines. It was also license-built in a number of Latin American countries. Tar ...
aircraft, a small passenger plane belonging to the Laser company, crashed in the
Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, Amazon jungle or ; es, Selva amazónica, , or usually ; french: Forêt amazonienne; nl, Amazoneregenwoud. In English, the names are sometimes capitalized further, as Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Forest, or Amazon Jungle. ...
near
Puerto Santander after taking off from Araracuara Airport. Among those killed were two researchers from the
. There were no survivors.
*On the first of May 2023, a
Cessna HK-2803 crashed in the jungle. Four
Huitoto children, the only survivors of the crash, were found alive 40 days later
Missing children found alive in Colombian Amazon 40 days after plane crash
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See also
*Transport in Colombia
Transport in Colombia is regulated by the Ministry of Transport.
Road travel is the main means of transport; 69 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by ai ...
*List of airports in Colombia
This is a list of airports in Colombia, grouped by type and sorted by location.
__TOC__ Airports
Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.
Notes
* The served town of Chía is located in ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - AraracuaraOurAirports - Araracuara AirportSkyVector - AraracuaraGoogle Maps - Araracuara
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Airports in Colombia
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