Maripasoula Airport

ICAO SOOA3.6559°N 54.0394°W124 m / 406 ftMedium airport

Maripasoula Airport (IATA: MPY, ICAO: SOOA) is a medium airport in Maripasoula, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana. It has one runway, 1,200 m (3,938 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by general council of Guyane. In 2022 it handled 17 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25055° / 235°

LENGTH1,200 m3,938 ftWIDTH15 m49 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

28K

30K

32K

39K

40K

36K

35K

42K

25K

35K

17K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

GSIGrand-Santi AirportFrench Guiana · Guyane Express Fly79 km49 mi XAUSaül AirportFrench Guiana · Guyane Express Fly93 km58 mi LDXSaint-Laurent-du-Maroni AirportFrench Guiana · Guyane Express Fly203 km126 mi CAYCayenne – Félix Eboué AirportFrench Guiana · Guyane Express Fly227 km141 mi

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers17K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,502of 3,974 · #263 South America · #2 GF Longest runway1,200 m3,938 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=10,122of 29,823 · =1,343 South America · #2 GF Elevation124 m406 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=28,896of 43,341 · =6,567 South America · #3 GF Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =1 GF

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