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Corocora Airport

Colombian airport in Trinidad in the departamento of Casanare

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28163829 ↗
Source-derived summary

Corocora Airport (ICAO: SKRO) is one of several airstrips serving the oil and gas-producing region of Trinidad municipality in the Casanare Department of Colombia.

The region is lightly populated. The nearest town is Santa Rosalía, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south. The municipality town of Trinidad is 75 kilometres (47 mi) west.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Corocora Airport” as colombian airport in Trinidad in the departamento of Casanare. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Corocora, Airport and Colombian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as colombian airport in Trinidad in the departamento of Casanare. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28163829. Authority coordinates are 5.375, -70.978. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Corocora Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Corocora Airport primary sources, Corocora Airport archive and Corocora research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Corocora Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Corocora Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.