Ituzaingó Yacyretá Airport | |
Nativename: | Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto de Ituzaingó Yacyretá |
Icao: | SARO |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Ituzaingó, Argentina |
Elevation-M: | 62 |
Metric-Elev: | y |
Coordinates: | -27.525°N -56.6347°W |
Pushpin Map: | Argentina |
Pushpin Label: | SARO |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Argentina |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 14/32 |
R1-Length-M: | 1230 |
R1-Surface: | Gravel |
Footnotes: | Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps[2] |
Ituzaingó Yacyretá Airport (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|Aeropuerto de Ituzaingó Yacyretá,) is a public use airport serving Ituzaingó, a town on the Paraná River in Corrientes Province, Argentina. The airport is 7km (04miles) northeast of Ituzaingó, on the southern shore of the Yacyretá Reservoir, and 9km (06miles) southeast of the Yacyretá lock and dam complex.
A wide corridor of high-tension transmission lines runs southeast from the Yacyretá hydroelectric power plant, parallel to the runway less than 1km (01miles) away. Northwest approach and departure may be over the water. The Paraguay/Argentina international border is northwest of the airport.[2]
The Posadas VOR-DME (Ident: POS) is located 36.4nmi east-northeast of the airport.[3]