Monte Dourado Airport
Encyclopedia
Serra do Areão Airport is the airport serving the district of Monte Dourado in Almeirim
, Brazil
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and is presently dedicated to general aviation
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Almeirim, Pará
Almeirim is a city on the Amazon and the northernmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Pará. The municipality is crossed by the Equator....
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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History
The airport was built as a support facility to Jari projectJari project
The Jari project was an attempt to create a tropical tree farm in Brazil for producing pulp for paper.-Background:The Jari project was a brainchild of US entrepreneur and billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. In the 1950s he noticed that demand for paper was rising. Since the forests of the temperate zone...
and is presently dedicated to general aviation
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
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