Virgilio Barco Vargas (La Chorrera) Airport guide

Virgilio Barco Vargas Airport serves La Chorrera, a town and municipality in the southern part of Amazonas Department, Colombia. The airfield sits at about 1°27′ S, 72°48′ W, beside the town. La Chorrera stands on a high bank of the Igaraparaná River, below a steep cataract. The municipality covers 12,670 square kilometres of jungle, and its people live mainly from farming, hunting, fishing and growing bananas and cassava.

The airport has a single runway, designated 04/22 and 1,450 metres long. Aerocivil, Colombia's civil aviation authority, operates it. The airport is named after Virgilio Barco Vargas, a former president of Colombia.

Air service is the main fast link to the outside world from this remote part of the Amazon. SATENA, the state-owned regional carrier, flies scheduled services from the airport to Araracuara and Leticia. In 2024 the airline announced weekly flights linking San José del Guaviare, La Chorrera and Leticia, with the Leticia leg leaving La Chorrera around midday on Thursdays. Flights in this region can be suspended when low river levels cut fuel deliveries, so check timetables with the airline before travelling.

There are no other towns of any size nearby, and the airport has no commercial services of its own.