El Alto International Airport
El Alto International Airport is an international airport serving La Paz, Bolivia. It is located in the city of El Alto, 13 kilometres west of La Paz. At an elevation of 4,061.5 metres, it is the highest international airport in the world, the seventh highest commercial airport in the world and the highest commercial airport outside of China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Airport
- Description: airport serving La Paz, Bolivia
- Also known as: “Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto”, “El Alto Airport”, “La Paz Airport”, “La Paz International Airport”, “LPB”, and “SLLP”
- Historically known as: “John F. Kennedy Airport”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Paz and Achocalla Municipality.
La Paz
La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, while Sucre is the constitutional capital and the seat of the Supreme Court.
Achocalla Municipality
Town
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Achocalla Municipality is the third municipal section of the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Achocalla or Achuqalla in the native language. Achocalla Municipality is situated 6 km south of El Alto International Airport.
El Alto International Airport
- Categories: international airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“El Alto International Airport” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “El Alto Internasionale Lughawe”
- Asturian: “Aeropuertu Internacional El Alto”
- Asturian: “El Alto Airport”
- Asturian: “La Paz Airport”
- Cebuano: “El Alto Airport”
- Cebuano: “El Alto International Airport”
- Cebuano: “La Paz Airport”
- Chinese: “埃尔阿尔托国际机场”
- Chinese: “埃爾阿爾托國際機場”
- Chinese: “奥尔托国际机场”
- Chinese: “奧爾托國際機場”
- Danish: “El Alto Airport”
- Danish: “El Alto International Airport”
- Danish: “La Paz Airport”
- Dutch: “Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto”
- Dutch: “El Alto Airport”
- Dutch: “La Paz Airport”
- Estonian: “El Alto lenujaam”
- Estonian: “El Alto rahvusvaheline lenujaam”
- Finnish: “Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto”
- Finnish: “El Alto Airport”
- Finnish: “El Alton kansainvälinen lentoasema”
- Finnish: “La Paz Airport”
- Finnish: “La Pazin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport international El Alto”
- French: “Aéroport international El Alto”
- French: “El Alto Airport”
- French: “La Paz Airport”
- French: “LPB”
- French: “SLLP”
- German: “El Alto Airport”
- German: “Flughafen El Alto”
- German: “Flughafen La Paz”
- German: “La Paz Airport”
- German: “LPB”
- German: “SLLP”
- Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי אל אלטו”
- Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי אל אלטו”
- Hindi: “अल एल्टो हवाई अड्डा”
- Hungarian: “El Alto nemzetközi repülőtér”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional El Alto”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional El Alto”
- Indonesian: “El Alto Airport”
- Indonesian: “La Paz Airport”
- Indonesian: “LPB”
- Indonesian: “SLLP”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di El Alto”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di La Paz”
- Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale di El Alto”
- Italian: “El Alto Airport”
- Italian: “El Alto International Airport”
- Italian: “La Paz Airport”
- Japanese: “エル・アルト国際空港”
- Japanese: “ラ・パス国際空港”
- Japanese: “ラ・パス空港”
- Japanese: “ラパス国際空港”
- Japanese: “ラパス空港”
- Korean: “엘알토 국제공항”
- Malay: “El Alto Airport”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa El Alto”
- Newari: “अल एल्टो विमानस्थल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Alto Airport”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Alto internasjonale flyplass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Paz Airport”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “LPB”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “SLLP”
- Norwegian: “El Alto internasjonale flyplass”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی ال آلتو”
- Polish: “La Paz Airport”
- Polish: “Międzynarodowy port lotniczy El Alto”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy El Alto”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional de El Alto”
- Portuguese: “El Alto Airport”
- Portuguese: “La Paz Airport”
- Quechua: “Altu llaqta antanka pampa”
- Quechua: “Altu llaqta antanka panpa”
- Quechua: “El Alto Airport”
- Quechua: “La Paz Airport”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul El Alto”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional El Alto”
- Romanian: “El Alto Airport”
- Romanian: “La Paz Airport”
- Russian: “Международный аэропорт Эль-Альто”
- Russian: “Эль-Альто”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto El Alto”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de El Alto”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto”
- Spanish: “El Alto Airport”
- Spanish: “La Paz Airport”
- Spanish: “SLLP”
- Swedish: “Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto”
- Swedish: “El Alto Airport”
- Swedish: “El Alto International Airport”
- Swedish: “La Paz Airport”
- Swedish: “La Paz flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ ил олту”
- Vietnamese: “El Alto Airport”
- Vietnamese: “La Paz Airport”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế El Alto”
- Welsh: “El Alto Airport”
- Welsh: “La Paz Airport”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol El Alto”
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