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Juan Santamaría International Airport. / 9.99389°N 84.20889°W / 9.99389; -84.20889. Juan Santamaría International Airport ( Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría) ( IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC) is the primary airport serving San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The airport is located in Alajuela Province, 20 kilometres (12 ...
t. e. This is a list of the busiest airports in Central America by passenger traffic, a statistic available for almost all the airstrips taken into account. The list intends to include all the international and domestic airports in the area geographically defined as Central America, comprising Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua ...
Juan Santamaría. Statue of Juan Santamaría in Alajuela. Juan Santamaría Rodríguez (August 29, 1831 – April 11, 1856) was a drummer in the Costa Rican army, officially recognized as the national hero of his country for his actions in the 1856 Second Battle of Rivas, in the Filibuster War. He died in the battle carrying a torch he used to ...
Map of Costa Rica. This is a list of airports in Costa Rica, sorted by location.. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
San Isidro de El General Airport. / 9.34861°N 83.71250°W / 9.34861; -83.71250. San Isidro de El General Airport ( IATA: IPZ, ICAO: MRSI) is an airport serving the city of San Isidro de El General and Pérez Zeledón county, Costa Rica. The airport is 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of downtown San Isidro. The airport is a public airstrip ...
The airport is named for Costa Rican pilot Tobias Bolaños Palma (1892-1953). The airport has one runway (1566mx23m). It lies at an elevation of 1002 meters AMSL. The airport has no instrument approach procedures and can only accept VFR flights. This airport is the main base for general aviation in the country, as well as most private flight ...
La Aurora International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora, IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT) serves Guatemala City, Guatemala. It is located 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi; 3.5 nmi) [1] south of Guatemala City's center and 25 km (16 mi; 13 nmi) from Antigua Guatemala. It is administered by the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics
The city is the birthplace of Juan Santamaría, the national hero of Costa Rica and the figure who gives the name to the country's main international airport, which is south of Alajuela downtown.