Capitán Nicolas Rojas Airport | |
Iata: | POI |
Icao: | SLPO |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | Government |
City-Served: | Potosí, Bolivia |
Elevation-F: | 12922 |
Coordinates: | -19.5431°N -65.7236°W |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label: | POI |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Bolivia |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 06/24 |
R1-Length-M: | 2833 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Sources: Google Maps[1] AASANA[2] WAD GCM |
Capitán Nicolas Rojas Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Capitán Nicolas Rojas,) is an extremely high elevation airport serving the city of Potosí, the capital of the Potosí Department in Bolivia.
The runway is in a shallow valley northeast of the city, with mountainous terrain in a quadrants.
The Potosi VOR-DME (Ident: PTS) is located 1.4nmi off the approach threshold of Runway 24. The Potosi non-directional beacon (Ident: POI) is located on the field.[3] [4]