TUC

Teniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport

ICAO SANT26.8374°S 65.1042°W455 m / 1,493 ftLarge airport
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Teniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (IATA: TUC, ICAO: SANT) is a large airport in San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán Province, Argentina. It opened in 1986. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina. In 2025 it handled 876 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1986–1986
1986
OpenedTeniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
02/20010° / 190° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025
512K
583K
655K
556K
933K
976K
204K
320K
722K
876K
761K
876K
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Routes

4 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsJetSmart Argentina 2Copa Airlines 1LATAM Cargo Chile 1Atlas Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TUC. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers876K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#880of 3,974 · #72 South America · #11 ARLongest runway3,500 m11,483 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=489of 29,823 · =15 South America · #1 ARElevation455 m1,493 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,095of 43,341 · =2,552 South America · #130 ARAgeOpened 19862026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=9,009of 15,079 · =136 South America · #17 ARRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =95 AR
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

2 channels
RDOTUCUMAN RDO122.500
TWRTUCUMAN TWR/APP119.500