Guillermo León Valencia Airport guide

Guillermo León Valencia Airport serves Popayán, the capital of Cauca Department in south-western Colombia. It sits at an elevation of about 1,733 metres in the Andes and lies close to the city centre, next to Popayán's ground transport terminal. The airport opened in 1949 and is named after Guillermo León Valencia, a Popayán-born president of Colombia.

It has one asphalt runway, 08/26. A new passenger terminal of 5,500 square metres, replacing a building of 2,800 square metres, opened in 2022 together with a new 27,000 square metre apron. The project cost about COP 58,958 million.

All scheduled flights are domestic. Avianca and Clic connect Popayán with Bogotá, and SATENA serves smaller towns on the Pacific side of Cauca, including Guapi and Timbiquí. The airport recorded about 115,900 passengers in 2015. Eruptions of the nearby Puracé volcano have at times forced the airport to suspend operations because of ash.