Vicuña Airport | |
Nativename: | El Indio Airport |
Icao: | SCVC |
Type: | Public |
Elevation-F: | 11975 |
Coordinates: | -29.8333°N -70.0461°W |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Label: | SCVC |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Vicuña Airport in Chile |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 02/20 |
R1-Length-M: | 1090 |
R1-Surface: | Grass |
Footnotes: | Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps GCM |
Vicuña Airport Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto de Vicuña or El Indio Airport, is an extremely high elevation airstrip east-northeast of Vicuña, Coquimbo, Chile.
The airstrip serves several small settlements, and is subject to snow cover. It is within a small fold above a steep mountain valley high in the Andes, and runs uphill to the north. There is mountainous terrain in all quadrants, with a best escape route[2] to the south down the valley.