# La Araucanía International Airport (ZCO / SCQP)

**La Araucanía International Airport** (IATA: ZCO, ICAO: SCQP) is a large airport in Temuco, Araucanía Region, Chile. It has one runway, 2,440 m (8,005 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 969 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: ZCO / SCQP
- Type: Large airport
- Serves: Temuco, Araucanía Region, Chile
- Elevation: 102 m / 333 ft
- Coordinates: -38.9259, -72.6515
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 2,440 m / 8,005 ft
- Passengers: 968,898 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-3/-4 · America/Santiago
- Website: http://www.aeropuertoaraucania.cl/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Araucan%C3%ADa_International_Airport (5 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17516120
- Weather station: SCQP
- Ident: SCQP

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01/19 | 2,440 m / 8,005 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt |  | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2021 | 619,997 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 916,053 | JAC Chile |
| 2023 | 1,059,997 | JAC Chile |
| 2024 | 1,113,059 | JAC Chile |
| 2025 | 968,898 | JAC Chile |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (2)

- [SCL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/scel.md) Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport · Chile · 638 km / 396 mi · LATAM Chile, Sky Airline, JetSmart
- [PUQ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/scci.md) President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport · Chile · 1,571 km / 976 mi · JetSmart

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (3)

- JA [JetSmart](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/jetsmart) · 2
- [LATAM Chile](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/latam-chile) · 1
- H2 [Sky Airline](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/sky-airline) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 969K (2025) | #832 of 3,974 | #63 in South America | #8 in CL |
| Longest runway | 2,440 m / 8,005 ft | =2,696 of 29,858 | #164 in South America | #16 in CL |
| Elevation | 102 m / 333 ft | =30,527 of 43,403 | #7,001 in South America | #256 in CL |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =181 in South America | =12 in CL |

## Nearby airports

- [PZS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/sctc.md) Maquehue Airport · 18 km / 11 mi
- [ZIC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/scto.md) Victoria Airport · 80 km / 50 mi
- [ZAL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/scvd.md) Pichoy Airport · 89 km / 55 mi

## Sources

- [JAC Chile](https://datos.gob.cl/organization/junta-de-aeronautica-civil): Chile: Junta de Aeronáutica Civil (CC0 1.0)
- [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: “La Araucanía International Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Araucanía_International_Airport&oldid=1366435329), revision of 28 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/scqp/data