Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport, formerly known as Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (IATA: LOH, ICAO: SECA) is an airport serving Loja, the capital of the Loja Province in southern Ecuador. Its name was changed from Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (after a former president of the country) to Ciudad de Catamayo Airport on 13 May 2013.^[3][4]

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport
IATA: LOH ICAO: SECA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Loja, Ecuador
Location	Catamayo
Elevation AMSL	4,056 ft / 1,236 m
Coordinates	03°59′45″S 79°22′20″W
Map
LOH Location of airport in Ecuador
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 2,000 6,562 Asphalt
Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2]

The airport is at Catamayo, a city in a mountain valley 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Loja. There is rising terrain south of the airport, and mountainous terrain in all other quadrants. The Loja non-directional beacon (Ident: LOJ) is located on the field.^[5] Several sources still list the airport ICAO code as SETM.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroregional	Quito

Accidents and incidents

• On 19 November 1979, an Ecuadorian Army IAI Arava 201 crashed on takeoff, killing all 16 people on board. General Rafael Rodríquez Palacios and his wife and daughter were among the dead.^[6]
• On 14 July 1980, Vickers Viscount HC-BHB of Aerolíneas Cóndor was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident.^[7]

See also

• Transport in Ecuador
• List of airports in Ecuador