PUZ

Puerto Cabezas Airport

ICAO MNPC14.0472°N 83.3867°W16 m / 52 ftMedium airport
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Puerto Cabezas Airport (IATA: PUZ, ICAO: MNPC) is a medium airport in Puerto Cabezas, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. It has one runway, 2,478 m (8,130 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Nicaragua. In 2015 it handled 40 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal Aeropuerto Bilwi
09/27092° / 272°
LENGTH2,478 m8,130 ftWIDTH51 m167 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2015
42K
41K
40K
121415

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PUZ. From the Wikipedia article “Puerto Cabezas Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers40K (2015)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,173of 3,974 · #501 North America · #4 NILongest runway2,478 m8,130 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#2,623of 29,823 · #518 North America · #2 NIElevation16 m52 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,027of 43,341 · =17,723 North America · #34 NIRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =1 NI
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels
TWRTWR118.000