La Viña Airport es, Aeropuerto La Viña, is an

airstrip An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

serving Guangualí (es), a village in the

Coquimbo Region The Coquimbo Region ( es, Región de Coquimbo, ) is one of Chile's 16 regions (first order administrative divisions). It is bordered by Atacama to the north, Valparaíso to the south, Argentina to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

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 east a ...

. The airstrip sits on a bluff above the

Quilimarí River The Quilimarí River is a river of Chile. It arises from several small streams in the foothills of the Andes, and runs for some westward to the mouth at Quilimarí on the Pacific coast.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 continen ...

coast. There is rising terrain to the south, and a dropoff into the river valley to the north.

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OpenStreetMap - La Viña
- La Viña Airport * Airports in Coquimbo Region {{Chile-airport-stub

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