Fatima Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Fatima, Bolivia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,000 ft / 305 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 15°27′10″S66°44′44″W / 15.45278°S 66.74556°W | ||||||||||
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  SLFA Location of the airport in Bolivia | |||||||||||
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Fatima Airport( ICAO : SLFA) is an airport serving the mission village of Fatima in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The runway extends northeast from the mission, within a bend of the small Chimanes River, which shortly feeds into the Rapulo River. There are no roads into Fatima.
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The Fatima Mission tends to the needs of the Tsimane, an isolated tribe of Bolivian Amerindians in the eastern Andes foothills. [3]
