Rodríguez Ballón International Airport

ICAO SPQU16.3408°S 71.5695°W2,562 m / 8,405 ftLarge airport

Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (IATA: AQP, ICAO: SPQU) is a large airport in Arequipa, Arequipa Region, Peru. It opened on 15 Aug 1979. It has one runway, 2,980 m (9,777 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by CORPAC. In 2022 it handled 1.7 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1979–1979

15 AUG 1979

OpenedRodríguez Ballón International Airport opens.

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

10/28093° / 273° · LIT · SLOPE 1.4%

LENGTH2,980 m9,777 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1999–2022

460K

419K

393K

314K

328K

355K

378K

445K

576K

2.0M

911K

1.7M

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

CUZAlejandro Velasco Astete International AirportPeru · JetSmart Perú, LATAM Airlines Peru, Sky Airline Peru314 km195 mi LIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · JetSmart Perú, LATAM Airlines Peru, Sky Airline Peru767 km477 mi

Most destinationsJetSmart Perú 2LATAM Airlines Peru 2Sky Airline Peru 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AQP. From the Wikipedia article “Rodríguez Ballón International Airport” (revision of 10 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.7M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#628of 3,974 · #49 South America · #3 PE Longest runway2,980 m9,777 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,452of 29,823 · #63 South America · #9 PE Elevation2,562 m8,405 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=182of 43,341 · #72 South America · #29 PE AgeOpened 19792026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,900of 15,079 · =114 South America · #7 PE Runways11 · 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

3 channels

APPAREQUIPA APP118.700

GNDGND121.900

TWRAREQUIPA TWR118.700