Mariscal Lamar Airport
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Mariscal Lamar International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto
Internacional Mariscal Lamar) (IATA: CUE, ICAO: SECU) is an
airport serving Cuenca, a city in the province of Azuay in
Ecuador.
The airport resides at an elevation of 8,306 feet (2,532 m) above
mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt
surface measuring 6,234 by 118 feet (1,900 m × 36 m). Since 2002
the ILS system for the airport is available and fully operational.
Despite improvements the location of the airport in the middle of
the city is a major handicap, as the runway is only barely long
enough for large planes landing at this altitude. This has
resulted in a few accidents involving planes running off the end
of the runway, a restriction on flights in wet weather during much
of 2016, and at the end of 2016 the airport completed a
resurfacing of the runway to improve traction in wet weather.
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