# Drake Bay Airport (DRK / MRDK)

**Drake Bay Airport** (IATA: DRK, ICAO: MRDK) is a small airport in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. It has one runway, 750 m (2,461 ft) long, asphalt. In 2015 it handled 13 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrdk

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: DRK / MRDK
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
- Elevation: 4 m / 12 ft
- Coordinates: 8.7189, -83.6417
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 750 m / 2,461 ft
- Passengers: 13,105 (2015)
- Time zone: UTC-6 · America/Costa_Rica
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%ADa_Drake_Airport (11 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1655137
- Weather station: MRPM · WMO 78772
- Ident: MRDK

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 750 m / 2,461 ft |  | Asphalt |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2014 | 13,438 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 13,105 | Wikidata |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [PJM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrpj.md) Puerto Jimenez Airport · Costa Rica · 43 km / 27 mi · Aerobell Airlines, SANSA
- [SYQ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrpv.md) Tobías Bolaños International Airport · Costa Rica · 148 km / 92 mi · Aerobell Airlines
- [SJO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mroc.md) Juan Santamaría International Airport · Costa Rica · 155 km / 96 mi · SANSA

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from DRK, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (2)

- Aerobell Airlines · 2
- RZ [SANSA](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/sansa) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 13K (2015) | #2,582 of 3,974 | #618 in North America | #8 in CR |
| Longest runway | 750 m / 2,461 ft | =21,059 of 29,858 | =9,608 in North America | #29 in CR |
| Elevation | 4 m / 12 ft | =42,227 of 43,403 | =19,018 in North America | #122 in CR |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =1 in CR |

## Nearby airports

- [MRFI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrfi.md) Finca 10 / Nuevo Palmar Sur Airport · 26 km / 16 mi
- [MRSN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrsn.md) Sirena Airport · 27 km / 17 mi
- [MRFD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrfd.md) Finca Delicias Airport · 28 km / 18 mi
- [MRDO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrdo.md) Dieciocho Airport · 31 km / 19 mi
- [PMZ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrpm.md) Palmar Sur Airport · 32 km / 20 mi
- [MRCE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrce.md) Carate Airport · 37 km / 23 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Bahía Drake Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bahía_Drake_Airport&oldid=1363015732), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/mrdk/data