CPO

Desierto de Atacama Airport

ICAO SCAT27.2612°S 70.7792°W204 m / 670 ftMedium airport
On the map

Desierto de Atacama Airport (IATA: CPO, ICAO: SCAT) is a medium airport in Copiapo, Atacama Region, Chile. It opened in 2005. It has one runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 646 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2005–2005
2005
OpenedDesierto de Atacama Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aeropuerto Desierto de Atacama
17/35175° / 355° · LIT
LENGTH2,200 m7,218 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2025
403K
515K
598K
540K
427K
472K
411K
650K
723K
711K
646K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsLATAM Chile 1Sky Airline 1JetSmart 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers646K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,001of 3,974 · #80 South America · #11 CLLongest runway2,200 m7,218 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,269of 29,823 · =205 South America · #19 CLElevation204 m670 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=23,957of 43,341 · =5,415 South America · #159 CLAgeOpened 20052026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,087of 15,079 · =150 South America · #7 CLRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =12 CL
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