Nuevo Rocafuerte Airstrip

Nuevo Rocafuerte Airstrip is a small general aviation facility located in Nuevo Rocafuerte, a remote town in the Orellana Province of Ecuador, situated on the Napo River near the border with Peru. The airstrip serves as a vital lifeline for this isolated community, providing air access where road infrastructure is extremely limited and river travel remains the primary alternative. The facility handles light aircraft operations, supporting local communities, missionaries, government officials, and occasional cargo flights into this part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. It plays an important logistical role for the surrounding indigenous communities and the Yasuní National Park region. The airstrip does not operate scheduled commercial airline service and lacks the infrastructure of larger regional airports. It is registered under Ecuador's civil aviation authority but remains a basic, unimproved facility suited primarily to small propeller-driven aircraft.