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Sucúa Airport

airport in Ecuador

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 authorityQ12695171 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sucúa Airport (IATA: SUQ, ICAO: SESC) is an airport serving the town of Sucúa in Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador.

The runway parallels the main road entering Sucúa from the south. The Macas non-directional beacon (Ident: MAS) is located 11.1 nautical miles (21 km) north-northeast of the airport. The Macas VOR-DME (Ident: MSV) is located 14.0 nautical miles (26 km) north-northeast of Sucúa Airport.

Editorial summary

“Sucúa Airport” enters the record as airport in Ecuador. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sucúa, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sucúa, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sucúa Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sucúa, Airport and airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q12695171. Authority coordinates are -2.471, -78.169. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Sucúa Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sucúa Airport primary sources, Sucúa Airport archive and Sucúa 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 “Sucúa Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sucúa 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.