Golfo de Morrosquillo Airport is a commercial airport serving the
Caribbean
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coast municipality of
Tolú in the
Sucre Department
Sucre () is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 904,863, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia. Sucre is bordered by the Caribbean on the northwest; by Bo ...
of
Colombia
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. The airport is on the coast south of the town, and north approaches and departures are over the water.
The airport was refurbished in 2010 extending its terrain and runway. Currently,
Aerolínea de Antioquia
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At its peak, the airline o ...
and
SATENA are the only airlines that serve this airport.
Aerolínea de Antioquia is the most prominent airlines at the airport, operating Dornier 328s, and SATENA began operations in early March, 2017, operating
ATR 42
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On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and ...
s.
Airport renovation
The
Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics
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of Colombia invested 4,425,000,000 COP (US$2,500,000 app) to expand the airport in 2010. The airport lengthened its runway from to
Airport expansion
Spanish
Airlines and destinations
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
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - TolúSkyVector - Tolú
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Airports in Colombia
Buildings and structures in Sucre Department
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