Leg 259, Coari, State of Amazonas, Brazil via Colombia and Peru to Quito, Ecuador
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A lot of rain today, never stopped until getting up in the mountains in Ecuador.
05-07 Coari SWKO 6:19 AM
05-07 Tefe SBTF 6:52 AM
05-07 Japura SBFG 7:49 AM
05-07 Santo Antonio do Ica SBSK 8:21 AM
05-07 Senadora Eunice Michiles SDCG 8:44 AM
05-07 Tabatinga Intl SBTT 9:14 AM
05-07 Alfredo Vasquez Cobo SKLT 9:17 AM
05-07 Caballococha SPBC 9:31 AM No runway, landed in field
05-07 Col Francisco Secada Vignetta SPQT 10:30 AM
05-07 Teniente Bergerie SPID 10:36 AM
05-07 Santa Barbara SPEE 11:07 AM
05-07 El Encanto SPIQ 11:28 AM Bad Stuttering, poor detail, cockpit broken
05-07 Caucaya SKLG 12:12 PM
05-07 Gueppi SPGP 12:24 PM
05-07 Putumayo SEPT 12:41 PM
05-07 3 De Mayo SKAS 1:00 PM
05-07 San Luis SKIP 1:30 PM
05-07 El Rosal-Tcrnel Mantilla SETU 1:35 PM
05-07 Atahualpa SEIB 1:52 PM
05-07 Mariscal Sucre Intl SEQM * 2:07 PM Quito capital
05-07 Mariscal Sucre Intl SEQU 2:18 PM
Flight time 7:59 20 stops
Early start from Coari Airport, damp, light rain, lightning, the stage is set
The sun is up, bit watery
Heading upstream over the Amazon River
Taking a peak above the clouds over State of Amazonas
Tefé Airport
Tefé along the Amazon
Bright up here over Alvarães
Near Fonte Boa
Fonte Boa along the Amazon
Porto Da Baré
Near Japurá, the weather keeps getting worse
Japurá Airport (no wind data here)
Uati-Paraná
Tonantins along the Amazon
Santo Antônio do Içá
Checking what it looks like upstairs over Betania
Landing at São Paulo de Olivença
And up again over Évare II
Approaching Tabatinga
Tabatinga along the Amazon
Turning to land at Aeroporto Internacional de Tabatinga
Ligthning flashes all around
Tabatinga (left) is located in Brazil right next to Leticia which is in Colombia (middle)
In the middle of the river (island) is Santa Rosa de Yavarí which is in Peru (right)
Caballocha Airport, or maybe not
Caballocha, Peru on the Amazon
Las Amazonas, Peru
Indiana District
Belen on the Amazon
Approaching Pampachica
Col Francisco Secada Vignetta Airport
Pampachica, Iquitos, Peru
Landing at Teniente Bergerie Airport in the middle of town (on the left)
Sending the drone up for a bird’s eye view
I’ll be heading North next, leaving the Amazon behind
It does clear up around here
San Antonio del Estrecho along the Rio Putumayo
Rio Putomayo in Amacocha
Caucaya Airport
Serving Puerto Leguízamo, just accross the border (Rio Putomayo) in Colombio
Gueppi Airport, Peru side of the border, next to Colombia and Ecuador
Putamayo Airport in Puerto El Carmen de Putumayo, Ecuador
Landing at Tres de Mayo Airport, Puerto Asís, Putumayo, Colombia
Puerto Asís
Ipiales near the border with Ecuador
San Luis Airport, Colombia
Teniente Coronel Luis A. Mantilla International Airport, Ecuador
Serving Tulcan, behind me now
Atahualpa Airport or rather Skatepark Ibarra, Ibarra, Ecuador
Closes somehwere between 2011 and 2015, last update on AviationSafetyNetwork was in 2013
Imbabura Volcano (15,190ft) inactive stratovolcano (for at least 14,000 years)
Aeropuerto Internacional de Quito serving the capital of Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador’s capital, high in the Andean foothills at an altitude of 9,350ft
Turning to my last stop today, Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado below
Last stop today, Bicentenario Park. The old airport I’m landing at closed Februari, 2013
Quito on a nice day
Basílica del Voto Nacional, 19th-century neo-Gothic church
Plaza Grande Changing of the Guard and Monumento a la Independencia
And a peek inside the National Museum of Ecuador
Next leg, visiting the Galapagos Islands.