Rodríguez Ballón International Airport
IATA: AQP – ICAO: SPQU
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		CORPAC S.A
Location		Arequipa
Elevation AMSL		8,405 ft / 2,562 m
Coordinates		16°20′27.86″S 71°34′59.1″W / 16.3410722°S 71.583083°W / -16.3410722; -71.583083Coordinates: 16°20′27.86″S 71°34′59.1″W / 16.3410722°S 71.583083°W / -16.3410722; -71.583083
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
09/27	9,712	2,960	Asphalt

Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (IATA: AQP, ICAO: SPQU), known as Aeropuerto Internacional Rodríguez Ballón in Spanish, is an airport serving Peru's second largest city, Arequipa. This airport and Cusco's Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport are the main air hubs in southern Peru. Its runway is fully paved. In the past it has had international flights to destinations such as La Paz in Bolivia. It is the main gateway for tourists visiting the city of Arequipa, spectacular nearby ruins, and the Colca Canyon, the world's second deepest canyon (only behind Cotahuasi Canyon, also located in Arequipa.)

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
LAN Perú	Cuzco, Juliaca, Lima
Peruvian Airlines	Lima, Tacna
Sky Airline	Arica, Iquique, Santiago de Chile

[edit] External links

• (English) Airport information for SPQU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• (English) Map from Multimap
• (English) Satellite image from TerraServer

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