- IATA
- CUZ
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SPZO
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 3M
- in 2023
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
History & name
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport honours Alejandro Velasco Astete, a Peruvian aviator (1897-1925). Operated by CORPAC, it lies just 3 km from Cusco at an elevation of 10,860 feet, with one runway of 3,397 m, and handled 3 million passengers in 2023.
Named afterAlejandro Velasco Astete — Peruvian aviator (1897-1925)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport
- Serves
- Cusco, Peru
- City centre
- 3 km from Cusco
- Operator
- CORPAC
- Passengers
- 3 million in 2023
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,397 m
- Elevation
- 10,860 ft (3,310 m)
- Website
- corpac.gob.pe ↗
Where it sits
13.5°S, 71.9°W puts CUZ in the southern hemisphere, 1,505 km from the equator and 8,502 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 563rd most northerly, which makes it the 99th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 13.5°N, 108.1°E — 212 km from Cam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh (CXR) in Vietnam, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Inca Manco Capac (JUL), 288 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from CUZ
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima | LIM | 586 km | 1h 14m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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