Fazenda Campo Oliva - Nhecolândia

The airport was a private airstrip serving the Fazenda Campo Oliva, a cattle ranch. The closure was not due to a major event like a military conversion or a widely reported accident. The most probable reasons are economic factors or a change in the ranch's operational needs. This could include the sale of the property, the owner no longer operating aircraft due to cost, or the airstrip falling into disrepair and being abandoned rather than incurring the expense of maintenance and potential recertification with Brazil's aviation authorities (ANAC).

The airport is definitively closed and abandoned. Current satellite imagery shows the unpaved runway is heavily overgrown with vegetation and is no longer suitable for any aviation operations. The physical outline of the runway is still visible, but it has effectively returned to pasture. The surrounding area remains an active cattle ranch, the Fazenda Campo Oliva.

The airstrip's significance was purely private and logistical. It was not a public airport. Its primary role was to provide vital air access to the remote Fazenda Campo Oliva, located deep within the Nhecolândia subregion of the Pantanal, one of the world's largest tropical wetlands. In this region, land travel is often difficult or impossible, especially during the wet season. The airstrip would have handled light general aviation aircraft (e.g., Cessna 206/210, Piper Seneca) used for transporting personnel, light cargo, medical supplies, and visitors to and from the ranch. It was essential for the day-to-day management and logistical support of the cattle ranching operation. The ICAO code 'BR-0013' is an unofficial identifier used by non-governmental aviation databases to catalog small or unregistered airfields in Brazil; its official designation, if it ever had one with ANAC, would have followed a different format (e.g., SJXX or SWXX).

There are no known public plans or prospects for reopening the airstrip. As a private facility, any decision to reopen would be solely at the discretion and expense of the current owners of the Fazenda Campo Oliva. Reopening would require significant investment to clear, regrade, and restore the runway, as well as obtaining the necessary permits and certification from Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). Given its abandoned state, reopening is considered highly unlikely unless the ranch's owners have a renewed and pressing need for private air access.