Pelicano Airport | |
Icao: | SCEC |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Las Campanas Observatory |
Location: | Estación Chañar, Chile |
Elevation-F: | 3678 |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
Coordinates: | -29.1444°N -70.8878°W |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Label: | SCEC |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Pelicano Airport in Chile |
R1-Number: | 02/20 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,320 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps GCM |
Pelicano Airport Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Pelicano, is a desert airport near Estación Chañar, La Higuera, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.
The airport serves the astronomy community of the Las Campanas Observatory, one of the high elevation observatories in the Atacama Desert.
The runway has an additional of gravel overrun on the south end, which then drops into a canyon.