CPO — Desierto de Atacama Airport
- IATA code
- CPO
- ICAO code
- SCAT
- Size
- medium
- OurAirports class
- Passengers
- 668,884
- Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · +2.0% on the year before
- Nonstop routes
- 6
- With open traffic data
- Time zone
- UTC−3 / UTC−4
- America/Santiago
- Elevation
- 204 m
- 669 ft
- Runways
- 1
- Longest 2,200 m
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About CPO
Desierto de Atacama Airport is a medium-sized airport serving Copiapó, Chile. It opened in 2005. 668,884 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 6 nonstop routes from CPO.
Wikidata (CC0) · JAC Chile (CC0). Sources
Busiest nonstop routes from CPO
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| CPO → SCL | 680 km | 665,098 |
| CPO → CCP | 1,076 km | 3,273 |
| CPO → LSC | 297 km | 318 |
| CPO → PMC | 1,587 km | 105 |
| CPO → ESR | 146 km | 89 |
| CPO → ANF | 424 km | 1 |
Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports, JAC (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) for routes in and out of Chile. Routes outside these are not counted.
Nearest airports
| Code | Airport | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| ESR | Ricardo García Posada Airport | 146 km |
| LSC | La Florida Airport | 298 km |
| ANF | Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport | 426 km |
| IRJ | Capitan V A Almonacid Airport | 456 km |
| CTC | Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport | 516 km |
Distance from CPO to the major hubs
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,200 m | 45 m | Asphalt |
OurAirports (public domain). Sources
Location
Copiapo, Atacama Region, Chile · -27.2612, -70.7792
Questions
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