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El Tehuelche Airport

Puerto Madryn, Argentina

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Elevation

427 ft

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Location

Puerto Madryn · U · Argentina

Connectivity

1 routes · 1 destinations

Position

-42.759°, -65.103° · 427 ft elev.

Visa & Entry

Visa-free entry (many countries)

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Gateway to Patagonia's wildlife coast and Puerto Madryn.

Location

Puerto Madryn, Argentina

El Tehuelche Airport serves Puerto Madryn, a coastal city in Chubut Province, Argentina, best known as the gateway to the Valdés Peninsula UNESCO World Heritage Site. The airport provides essential air connectivity for this tourism-driven region, handling domestic routes that link Puerto Madryn to Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities. The airport is named after the Tehuelche people, the indigenous inhabitants of Patagonia. It handles a moderate volume of passengers, with traffic peaking during the wildlife tourism season when visitors arrive to observe southern right whales, elephant seals, and Magellanic penguins in the surrounding region.

Terminals

The airport features a single modest terminal building handling both arrivals and departures for domestic services.

Getting to & from

Taxis and rental cars are the primary means of ground transport between the airport and Puerto Madryn city center, located approximately 10 kilometers away.

Airlines here

Aerolíneas Argentinas and LATAM Argentina operate scheduled domestic services connecting Puerto Madryn to Buenos Aires and other Argentine destinations.

Notable facts

›Named after the Tehuelche, the indigenous people of Patagonia.
›Serves as a key entry point for ecotourism to the Valdés Peninsula UNESCO World Heritage Site.
›Located in Chubut Province in Argentine Patagonia.
›Passenger traffic is notably seasonal, peaking during whale-watching and wildlife tourism months.
›IATA code PMY corresponds to Puerto Madryn.

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Airlines serving this airport

Omni Air International

Routes

PMY → AEPOY · M82

Aircraft operating here

McDonnell Douglas MD-821 routes

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Encyclopaedia

El Tehuelche Airport is an airport 5 kilometres (3 mi) northwest of Puerto Madryn, a city on Golfo Nuevo in the Chubut Province of Argentina. The airport is 5 kilometres (3 mi) inland from the gulf, on the 3-RN Acceso Norte Puerto Madryn (U9120).

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Latest news

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El Tehuelche Airport

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