CTCSANC

Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport

Catamarca, Argentina

Latin America America/Catamarca

1direct destinations

1airlines

1runway

2,800 mLongest runway

1972opened

Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Coronel Felipe Varela) (IATA: CTC, ICAO: SANC) is an airport in Catamarca Province, Argentina, serving the provincial capital city of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. It was built in 1972, and was officially inaugurated with an Aerolíneas Argentinas Boeing 737 flight on 3 January 1973. Construction of the terminal started on 9 June 1981 and ended on 23 April 1987. Since 1999, the airport has been operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. In 2007, it handled 44,477 passengers. The airport is named after Felipe Varela, a soldier born in Catamarca in 1821 who fought in the Paraguayan War and died in Ñantoco, Chile, in 1870.

Location

28.593°S, 65.751°O · 464 m s. n. m. (1.522 ft)

General data

CountryArgentina

CityCatamarca

IATA codeCTC

ICAO codeSANC

Coordinates28.593°S, 65.751°O

Elevation464 m s. n. m. (1.522 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Catamarca

Runways1

Longest runway2,800 m

OperatorAeropuertos Argentina

Opened1972

Direct destinations1

Runways · 1

02/20

Length2,800 m9,186 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Airlines operating here · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Aerolineas Argentinas

Route network according to OpenFlights (open route database). It may not reflect recent schedule changes.

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, September 27). Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport (CTC). Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CTC

MLA

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_ctc,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport (CTC)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-09-27},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CTC},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CTC}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-21},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

Wikipedia

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