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title: "CUZ — Alejandro Velasco Astete Airport, Cusco · Orbit"
description: "Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ/SPZO) serves Cusco, Peru. Named after Alejandro Velasco Astete, 3 million passengers in 2023, 3 km from Cusco."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cuz
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Cusco · Peru · South America

# CUZ — Alejandro Velasco Astete

Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport serves Cusco, Peru, 3 km from the city centre, and sits at 13.5°S, 71.9°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Alejandro Velasco Astete** — Peruvian aviator (1897-1925)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%5FVelasco%5FAstete%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431170)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-13.53570,-71.93880)

**Website**
[corpac.gob.pe ↗](http://www.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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-cuz) | LIM | 586 km   | 1h 14m    |

[Distance from CUZ to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=CUZ&to=LIM) [Map a trip from CUZ →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CUZ-LIM)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure CUZ to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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