BRC

Teniente Luis Candelaria International Airport

ICAO SAZS41.1512°S 71.1575°W846 m / 2,774 ftLarge airport
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Teniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (IATA: BRC, ICAO: SAZS) is a large airport in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro Province, Argentina. It has one runway, 2,348 m (7,703 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Argentine Air Force. In 2025 it handled 2.6 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal de Cargas
11/29115° / 295° · LIT
LENGTH2,348 m7,703 ftWIDTH48 m157 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
810K
844K
1.1M
1.3M
1.6M
1.9M
473K
1.1M
2.0M
2.6M
2.4M
2.6M
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Routes

13 destinations · 3 countries
1,000 km2,000 km3,000 km500 mi1,000 mi1,500 mi2,000 miPMC · El Tepual International Airport · 165 km / 103 miPMY · El Tehuelche Airport · 532 km / 331 miBHI · Comandante Espora Airport · 812 km / 505 miMDZ · Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport · 949 km / 590 miMDQ · Ástor Piazzola International Airport · 1,217 km / 756 miCOR · Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport · 1,258 km / 782 miEZE · Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini · 1,309 km / 813 miAEP · Aeroparque Jorge Newbery · 1,335 km / 830 miSCL · Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport · 863 km / 536 miPOA · Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho International Airport · 2,184 km / 1,357 miVCP · Viracopos International Airport · 3,013 km / 1,872 miGRU · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport · 3,025 km / 1,880 miCNF · Tancredo Neves International Airport · 3,511 km / 2,182 miCNFGRUPOAAEPCORMDQMDZBHIPMYPMCSCLVCPEZEBRC
Most destinationsLíneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE) 4JetSmart Argentina 4Sky Airline 3Azul Brazilian Airlines 3LATAM Chile 1LATAM Brasil 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BRC. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “San Carlos de Bariloche Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2.6M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#511of 3,974 · #38 South America · #5 ARLongest runway2,348 m7,703 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#2,992of 29,823 · #182 South America · #37 ARElevation846 m2,774 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#6,082of 43,341 · #642 South America · #53 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

3 channels
ATISATIS127.900
RDOBARILOCHE RDO122.300
TWRBARILOCHE TWR/APP119.100