Diego Aracena International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Diego Aracena) is an airport serving
Iquique
Iquique () is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the Atacama Desert. It has a population of 191, ...
, capital of the
Tarapacá Region
The Tarapacá Region ( es, Región de Tarapacá, ) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions. It comprises two provinces, Iquique and Tamarugal. It borders the Chilean Arica and Parinacota Region to the north, Bolivia's Orur ...
in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...
. The airport is on the
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
coast south of the city. It shares a runway with Los Cóndores Air Base (''Base Aérea Los Cóndores''), home to the First Air Brigade of the
Chilean Air Force
"With full speed to the stars"
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(''Fuerza Aérea de Chile'').
The Iquique
VOR-DME
In radio navigation, a VOR/DME is a radio beacon that combines a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) with a distance-measuring equipment (DME). The VOR allows the receiver to measure its bearing to or from the beacon, while the DME provides the sla ...
(Ident: IQQ) is north of the airport. The Diego Aracena
non-directional beacon
A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information. Radio beacons are radio transmitters at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB are ...
(Ident: R) is located on the field.
Iquique VOR
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Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Cargo
See also
*Transport in Chile
Transport in Chile is mostly by road. The far south of the country is not directly connected to central Chile by road, and water transport also plays a part there. The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small ...
*List of airports in Chile
This is a list of airports in Chile, sorted by location.
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Airports
Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled commercial airline service. Links to Spanish language Wikipedia are added for some communities.
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References
External links
Diego Aracena International Airport
at OpenStreetMap
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Diego Aracena International Airport
at OurAirports
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Airports in Chile
Airports in Tarapacá Region