Gobernador Gregores Airport , is an airport serving
Gobernador Gregores
Gobernador Gregores ( es, Governor Gregores) is a town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, formerly known as ''Cañadón León''. Ramón Outerello, one of the leaders of the massive strike known as Patagonia rebelde was executed there by a firi ...
, a town in the
Santa Cruz Province of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. The airport is east-southeast of the town, on a low
mesa
A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a ...
above the
Chico River.
An overrun of on the west end of the runway will drop off the mesa. There is a higher mesa just off the east end, less than north of the approach path.
The Gobernador Gregores
non-directional beacon
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(Ident: GRE) is located on the field.
Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.
See also
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Transport in Argentina
Transport in Argentina is mainly based on a complex network of routes, crossed by relatively inexpensive long-distance buses and by cargo trucks. The country also has a number of national and international airports. The importance of the long-d ...
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List of airports in Argentina
This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location.
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Airports
ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports.
Airport names sho ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Gobernador Gregores Airport*
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Airports in Argentina
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