You’ll have access to great beaches with excellent surfing and kite-surfing. Surpacifico is located in a wonderful part of Ecuador, right on the Pacific coastline.
"Aviación - Ala 23 "Eloy Alfaro" - Manta" (in Spanish). ^ Solano, Gonzalo ( Associated Press), " US Anti-Drug Force Flies Last Flight From Ecuador", Miami Herald, July 17, 2009. ^ Bajak, Frank, ( Associated Press), " U.S., Colombia said to be near base access deal", Military Times, July 15, 2009. ^ Morrison, James, "Embassy Row: Moving to Columbia", The Washington Times, April 15, 2009, p. Military Looks to Colombia to Replace Base in Ecuador from, a Caracas-based website providing "information and analysis on Venezuela in the English language" ^ The Washington Post, April 22, 2008, p. military base contract in Ecuador not to be renewed after 2009 Archived at the Wayback Machine from Air Base The Boot", The Washington Post, September 4, 2008. 19 Partlow, Joshua, " Ecuador Giving U.S. Told To Stop Using Air Base", July 30, 2008, Pg. ^ Romero, Simon, "Ecuador Opposes Outpost In American War On Drugs", The New York Times, May 12, 2008, Pg. ^ Butler, Amy, "Down South: Regional cost-sharing seems an option for Central American AFs' aging systems", Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 21, 2008, p. ^ Anti-drug air base pact to be ended from The Washington Times website. ^ Eloy Alfaro Air Base, Manta, Ecuador from. ^ Airport information for Manta at Great Circle Mapper. ^ Airport information for SEMT from DAFIF (effective October 2006). military anti-narcotics surveillance mission from Manta was flown on July 17, 2009. was negotiating with Colombia to use Palanquero Air Base in Puerto Salgar as Manta's replacement. Part of this collaboration, without doubt, requires access to facilities between both countries." As of July 2009, the U.S. are collaborating on efforts against illegal drugs. ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield announced that the base would be relocating from Manta to a location somewhere in Colombia. The most credible claim of a country likely to host such a base is probably Colombia, whose base in Puerto Salgar recently entered a process of recertification by the US military. Other bases in the continental mass have been posited as candidates for a replacement. military would use existing air bases in El Salvador, Curaçao, and Key West, Florida for drug-surveillance flights. Southern Command stated on April 21, 2008, that there were no plans to find a replacement drug-interdiction air base in South America if Ecuador declined to renew the lease of Manta. Īdmiral James Stavridis, chief of the U.S. On July 26, 2008, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry formally notified the U.S. On March 19, 2008, the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly voted to outlaw the installation of any foreign military bases and installations in Ecuador. 
about a base in Manta, if they let us put a military base in Miami.". įrom before his election, President Rafael Correa stated that he would not renew the agreement that allowed the United States access to the base when it expires in November 2009, and commented that "We can negotiate with the U.S. drug interdiction in the eastern Pacific.
The flights accounted for about 60 percent of U.S. In 2007, the flights led to about 200 cocaine seizures, totaling about 230 tons. The aircraft at the base flew about 100 missions per month looking for drug-running boats departing Colombia. aircraft based at Manta fed surveillance information to the Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West. USAF AWACS E-3 and United States Navy P-3 Orion aircraft, supported by about 300 US military personnel, operated from the base to monitor air traffic in the area. to station up 475 military personnel at Manta, rent-free. signed a ten-year agreement with then Ecuadorean President Jamil Mahuad allowing the U.S. It was formally known as Forward Operating Location Manta. Panama City–Tocumen (begins June 27, 2023) Ī portion of the airport was used until July 2009 by the Air Forces Southern Air Force component of the United States Southern Command, for operations against illegal cocaine trafficking in northwestern South America. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Ecuador.Īirlines and destinations Airlines It was inaugurated by the Ecuadorian Air Force on October 24, 1978. The airport, also known as Eloy Alfaro Air Base, is named in honor of Eloy Alfaro, a former president of Ecuador. Eloy Alfaro International Airport ( IATA: MEC, ICAO: SEMT) is a combination civilian airport and military air base on the Pacific coast near Manta, a city in the Manabí Province of Ecuador.
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