WPU

Guardia Marina Zañartu Airport

ICAO SCGZ54.9311°S 67.6263°W27 m / 88 ftMedium airport
On the map

Guardia Marina Zañartu Airport (IATA: WPU, ICAO: SCGZ) is a medium airport in Puerto Williams, Magallanes Region, Chile. It has one runway, 1,440 m (4,724 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Chilean Air Force. In 2025 it handled 44 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1991–1991
20 FEB 1991
DisasterLAN Chile Flight 1069.20 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal de Pasajeros Aeródromo de Puerto Williams
08/26091° / 271° · LIT
LENGTH1,440 m4,724 ftWIDTH29 m95 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2025
14K
13K
15K
18K
24K
26K
14K
26K
36K
35K
44K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WPU. From the Wikipedia article “Guardia Marina Zañartu Airport” (revision of 12 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers44K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,132of 3,974 · #213 South America · #21 CLLongest runway1,440 m4,724 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,566of 29,823 · =847 South America · #42 CLElevation27 m88 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,352of 43,341 · =8,181 South America · #329 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

Radio frequencies

1 channels
TWRWILLIAMS APP/TWR118.500