SOMSVST

San Tomé Airport

El Tigre, Venezuela · Latin America

Latin America America/Caracas

1runway

1,920 mLongest runway

San Tomé Airport (IATA: SOM, ICAO: SVST) is an airport at the town of San Tomé, in the Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui. It is also known as Don Edmundo Barrios Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Don Edmundo Barrios) after journalist Edmundo Barrios, the founder of the weekly Antorcha. It also serves the cities of El Tigre and San José de Guanipa, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southwest of San Tomé.

Location

8.945°N, 64.151°O · 262 m s. n. m. (861 ft)

General data

CountryVenezuela

CityEl Tigre

IATA codeSOM

ICAO codeSVST

Coordinates8.945°N, 64.151°O

Elevation262 m s. n. m. (861 ft)

Time zoneAmerica/Caracas

Runways1

Longest runway1,920 m

Runways · 1

08/26

Length1,920 m6,299 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

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

Radio frequencies · 1

Tower

118.850

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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). San Tomé Airport (SOM). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM

MLA

“San Tomé Airport (SOM).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “San Tomé Airport (SOM).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) San Tomé Airport (SOM). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM (Accessed: 19 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_som,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{San Tomé Airport (SOM)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-19},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SOM |title=San Tomé Airport (SOM) |website=Vuelopedia |publisher=Fundación Poderia |date=2026-10-15 |access-date=2026-10-19 |language=en}}