Puerto Rico Airport guide

Puerto Rico Airport (ICAO: SLPR, IATA: PUR) is a small public airfield serving the town of Puerto Rico in Manuripi Province, Pando Department, in northern Bolivia. It is not related to the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. The town sits at the confluence of the Manuripi and Tahuamanu rivers, which form the Orthon River, inside the Manuripi-Heath Amazonian Wildlife National Reserve. It was founded on 18 May 1890 and was the first capital of Pando Department, before Cobija.

The airport has one grass runway, designated 10/28, that is 1,340 metres (4,396 ft) long. Elevation is 182 metres (597 ft) above sea level. The western end of the runway doubles as a street in the town.

The town lies about 169 km east of Cobija, the department capital, along Ruta 13, which crosses the Orthon River at Puerto Rico. The town had 2,872 residents at the 2013 census, up from 1,522 in 2001. The surrounding lowlands are tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin, with an average annual temperature of 26.5 C and about 1,800 mm of rain a year, heaviest from December to March. A recreational fishing championship is held each June at the river confluence.