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Uyuni Joya Andina Airport (ICAO: SLUY, IATA: UYU) is a high-altitude airfield near Quijarro in the Potosí Department of Bolivia, close to the town of Uyuni and the vast Salar de Uyuni salt flats. Sitting at over 12,000 feet above sea level, it is one of the more physically demanding fields a simulator pilot can plan a flight to, with a single long hard-surfaced runway to compensate for the thin high-altitude air.
Uyuni Joya Andina Airport serves the town of Uyuni and the surrounding Potosí Department of Bolivia, a region famous for the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. For a simulator pilot the field's chief point of interest is its extreme elevation, over 12,000 feet, which places it among the highest airports anywhere and makes density altitude and aircraft performance important considerations for any approach or departure.
The airport lies at Quijarro in the Potosí Department of Bolivia, at coordinates 20.4425 South, 66.8581 West, close to the town of Uyuni and the Salar de Uyuni salt flats that dominate the surrounding high Andean plateau.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 13/31, of hard surface construction and 13,137 feet in length. No ILS is available on this runway.
No published communications frequencies are recorded for the field, so pilots should expect it to operate without an associated air traffic or radio service and without any instrument approach aids; there is no ILS.