Chan Chich Airstrip

Chan Chich Airstrip
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Summary
Airport type Private
Location Gallon Jug
Coordinates 17°34′00″N 089°02′49″W / 17.56667°N 89.04694°W / 17.56667; -89.04694Coordinates: 17°34′00″N 089°02′49″W / 17.56667°N 89.04694°W / 17.56667; -89.04694
Map
Chan Chich Airstrip

Location in Belize

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 3,133 955 Asphalt
Sources: Google Maps[1]

Chan Chich Airstrip is in Gallon Jug, Belize.

It is the only reasonable means of access to the eco-lodge created by Sir Barry Bowen in his private game park deep in the Belize rain forest, adjacent to the Rio Bravo Conservation area. Arduous tracks accessible by 4WD vehicles are the only other connections from less remote areas.

The airstrip also serves the wider Gallon Jug community, including the ranch, where efforts are being made to breed a strain of cattle more suited to the tropics by cross-breeding with English Hereford bloodlines.

The lodge has been serving tourists since 1988.[2] A Mayan archeological site is near the lodge.[3]

See also

References

  1. Google Maps - Chan Chich
  2. Chan Chich history, accessed 26 Sept 2012
  3. Chan Chich Maya Site Project
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