Ometepe Airport | |
Nativename: | La Paloma Airport |
Icao: | MNLP |
Type: | Public |
Owner-Oper: | INAC |
City-Served: | Moyogalpa, Nicaragua |
Elevation-F: | 213 |
Coordinates: | 11.5236°N -85.7014°W |
Pushpin Map: | Nicaragua |
Pushpin Label: | MNLP |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Nicaragua |
Website: | EAAI Ometepe |
Metric-Rwy: | yes |
R1-Length-M: | 1500 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R1-Number: | 09/27 |
Footnotes: | Source: GCM Google Maps[1] |
Ometepe Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto La Paloma de Ometepe (OMT)) is the only airport on Ometepe, the largest island in Lake Nicaragua. The airport is in the La Paloma comarca of Moyogalpa, Rivas Department, Nicaragua, 1.6km (01miles) south of Moyogalpa.
The airport was built in May of 2014 at a cost of almost .[2] [3]
The runway begins at the shoreline, and west approaches and departures are over the water. The volcanic slopes of Concepción volcano begin 5km (03miles) east of the runway.[1]
The Managua VOR-DME (Ident: MGA) is located 45.6nmi northwest of Ometepe Airport. The Liberia VOR-DME is located 56.3nmi south of the airport.[4] [5]