RIJ

Juan Simons Vela Airport

ICAO SPJA6.0679°S 77.1600°W825 m / 2,707 ftMedium airport
On the map

Juan Simons Vela Airport (IATA: RIJ, ICAO: SPJA) is a medium airport in Rioja, San Martín Region, Peru. It opened in 1934. It has one runway, 1,880 m (6,168 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by CORPAC. In 2022 it handled 410 passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1934–1934
1934
OpenedJuan Simons Vela Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aeropuerto Juan Simons Vela
16/34166° / 346° · LIT
LENGTH1,880 m6,168 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1999–2022
2K
303
796
177
281
101
31
15
7
143
323
410
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers410 (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=3,455of 3,974 · #432 South America · #31 PELongest runway1,880 m6,168 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,364of 29,823 · =333 South America · #31 PEElevation825 m2,707 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=6,258of 43,341 · =704 South America · #48 PEAgeOpened 19342026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=552of 15,079 · #11 South America · #1 PERunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =2 PE
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

1 channels
AFISRIOJA RDO118.300