LPB
El Alto International Airport
El Alto International Airport (IATA: LPB, ICAO: SLLP) is a large airport in La Paz / El Alto, La Paz Department, Bolivia. It opened in 1965. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,000 m (13,123 ft). It is operated by Abertis. In 2008 it handled 950 thousand passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1965–20261965
OpenedEl Alto International Airport opens.
27 FEB 2026
Disaster2026 Bolivian Air Force Hercules C-130 crash.22 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap10/28092° / 272° · LIT · SLOPE 1.6%
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEConcrete
10L/28R098° / 278° · SLOPE 1.6%
LENGTH2,050 m6,725 ftWIDTH91 m300 ftSURFACEGrass
Routes
9 destinations · 4 countriesYear-round9
CBBJorge Wilsterman International AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar237 km147 miRBQRurrenabaque AirportBolivia · EcoJet243 km151 miTDDTeniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz AirportBolivia · EcoJet398 km247 miCUZAlejandro Velasco Astete International AirportPeru · Avianca521 km324 miVVIViru Viru International AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar552 km343 miCIJCapitán Aníbal Arab AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar612 km380 miLIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · LATAM Airlines Peru1,083 km673 miSCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · LATAM Chile1,895 km1,177 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca2,448 km1,521 miMost destinationsEcoJet 5Transporte Aéreo Militar 3Avianca 2LATAM Airlines Peru 1LATAM Chile 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LPB. From the Wikipedia article “El Alto International Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
5 channelsAPPLA PAZ APP119.500
GCCDGND121.900
INFOLA PAZ FIS127.100
RDOLA PAZ RDO662.200
TWRLA PAZ TWR118.300