Termas de Río Hondo International Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Internacional de Termas de Río Hondo) is an airport serving the city of

Termas de Río Hondo Termas de Río Hondo is a spa city in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. It has 27,838 inhabitants as per the . It is located on the banks of the Dulce River, 65 km north of the provincial capital Santiago del Estero, near the artifici ...

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. It was built between 2010 and 2012 by

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. The airport was inaugurated on 24 July 2012 by President

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; one month later the first flight from

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landed at the airport. Up to the late-1970s, there was an airport here, but it was closed, as both

Santiago del Estero Santiago del Estero (, Spanish for ''Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon'') is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, () making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a surf ...

, away from Termas de Río Hondo, and

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, away, had airports with paved runways. The airport is beside the Río Hondo Reservoir (es), west of the city. South approach and departure are over the water. There is a

blast pad According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, o ...

on Runway 19. The Termas de Río Hondo

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 slan ...

(Ident: TRH) is located on the field.

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OpenStreetMap - Termas de Río Hondo International Airport
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