El Alto International Airport

ICAO SLLP16.5103°S 68.1894°W4,071 m / 13,355 ftLarge 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 · 1965–2026

1965

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 · © OpenStreetMap

10/28092° / 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 countries

Year-round9

CBBJorge Wilsterman International AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar237 km147 mi RBQRurrenabaque AirportBolivia · EcoJet243 km151 mi TDDTeniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz AirportBolivia · EcoJet398 km247 mi CUZAlejandro Velasco Astete International AirportPeru · Avianca521 km324 mi VVIViru Viru International AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar552 km343 mi CIJCapitán Aníbal Arab AirportBolivia · EcoJet, Transporte Aéreo Militar612 km380 mi LIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · LATAM Airlines Peru1,083 km673 mi SCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · LATAM Chile1,895 km1,177 mi BOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca2,448 km1,521 mi

Most 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 · country

Passengers950K (2008)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=839of 3,974 · #66 South America · #2 BO Longest runway4,000 m13,123 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=111of 29,823 · =3 South America · =1 BO Elevation4,071 m13,355 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#19of 43,341 · #7 South America · #2 BO AgeOpened 19652026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,474of 15,079 · =81 South America · #3 BO Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =21 South America · =1 BO

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

5 channels

APPLA PAZ APP119.500

GCCDGND121.900

INFOLA PAZ FIS127.100

RDOLA PAZ RDO662.200

TWRLA PAZ TWR118.300