RCH

Almirante Padilla Airport

ICAO SKRH11.5262°N 72.9260°W13 m / 43 ftMedium airport
On the map

Almirante Padilla Airport (IATA: RCH, ICAO: SKRH) is a medium airport in Riohacha, La Guajira Department, Colombia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,650 m (5,413 ft). It is operated by Colombian Civil Aviation Authority. In 2022 it handled 447 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aeropuerto Almirante Jose Prudencio Padilla
09/27088° / 268°
LENGTH1,650 m5,413 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
10/28
LENGTH—WIDTH—SURFACE—

Passengers per year

2011–2022
65K
91K
108K
134K
150K
150K
150K
172K
261K
80K
225K
447K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAvianca 2SATENA 1LATAM Airlines Colombia 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers447K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,163of 3,974 · #101 South America · #16 COLongest runway1,650 m5,413 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,575of 29,823 · =485 South America · #45 COElevation13 m43 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,609of 43,341 · =8,450 South America · #621 CORunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =21 South America · =1 CO
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
RDORIOHACHA RDO348.800
TWRTWR118.400