Araracuara Airport Explained

Araracuara Airport
Iata:	ACR
Icao:	SKAC
City-Served:	Araracuara, Colombia
Elevation-F:	1246
Coordinates:	-0.6008°N -72.3981°W
Pushpin Map:	Colombia Caquetá Department#Colombia
Pushpin Label:	ACR
R1-Number:	11/29
R1-Length-M:	1280
R1-Surface:	Gravel
Metric-Rwy:	y
Footnotes:	Source: GCM HERE Maps^[1] Aeronáutica Civil^[2]

Araracuara Airport is an airport serving Araracuara, in the Caquetá Department of Colombia. Araracuara was the site of a former penal colony for Colombia's worst and most dangerous criminals.^{[3] [4]} The town and airport are on the north bank of the Caquetá River, an eventual tributary of the Amazon River.

The Araracuara non-directional beacon (Ident: ARA) is located just south of the airport.^[5]

Accidents and incidents

• On 6 September 2014, ten people were killed when a twin-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo aircraft, a small passenger plane belonging to the Laser company, crashed in the Amazon rainforest near Puerto Santander after taking off from Araracuara Airport. Among those killed were two researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute. There were no survivors.^[6]
• On the first of May 2023, a Cessna 206 took off and crashed^[7] in the jungle. Four Huitoto children, the only survivors of the crash, were found alive 40 days later.^[8]

See also

• Transport in Colombia
• List of airports in Colombia

External links

• OpenStreetMap - Araracuara
• OurAirports - Araracuara Airport
• SkyVector - Araracuara
• Google Maps - Araracuara

Notes and References

1. Web site: Araracuara Airport . HERE Maps . 25 October 2018.
2. Web site: AIP Colombia - AD 1.3 INDICE DE AERODROMOS Y HELIPUERTOS. https://web.archive.org/web/20140504190753/http://www.aerocivil.gov.co/AIS/AIP/AIP%20Generalidades/Aerodromos/04%20AD%201.3.pdf. dead. 4 May 2014. Aeronáutica Civil. Spanish. 4 December 2015.
3. Web site: Araracuara prison . The Culture Trip . 24 November 2017 . 25 October 2018.
4. News: Molano Jimeno . Alfredo . June 5, 2011 . La selva por cárcel . Spanish . . May 18, 2023.
5. Web site: Araracuara NDB . Our Airports . 24 October 2018.
6. Web site: Small passenger plane crashes in Colombian jungle, killing 10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140928105347/http://www.bnowire.com/2014/09/08/small-passenger-plane-crashes-in-colombian-jungle-killing-10/ . 28 September 2014 . 26 December 2014 . BNO News.
7. Web site: Accident Cessna U206G Stationair II HK-2803, 01 May 2023 . 2023-06-10 . aviation-safety.net.
8. https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230610-colombia-children-found-alive-in-amazon-jungle-40-days-after-plane-crash Missing children found alive in Colombian Amazon 40 days after plane crash