São Jorge Airport

São Jorge Airport is the only airport of the island of São Jorge, situated in the civil parish of Santo Amaro, municipality of Velas in the Azores. The airport is on the edge of Fajã da Queimada, along the southern coast, situated 6 km southeast of Velas and 28 km northwest of Calheta.

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Type: Airport
Description: airport
Also known as: “LPSJ”, “Sao Jorge Airport”, and “SJZ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Portão do Mar and Church of São Mateus.

Portão do Mar

City gate

Photo: Mosbatho, CC BY 4.0.

Portão do Mar is a city gate, which is situated 3 km northwest of São Jorge Airport.

Church of São Mateus

Church

Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.

Church of São Mateus is situated 4 km southeast of São Jorge Airport.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Urzelina and Fajã de João Dias.

Urzelina

Village

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Urzelina is a civil parish in the municipality of Velas in the Portuguese islands of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 13.69 km². Urzelina is situated 5 km southeast of São Jorge Airport.

Fajã de João Dias

Hamlet

Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.

The Fajã de João Dias is a permanent debris field, built from the collapsing cliffs on the northern coast of the civil parish of Rosais, in the municipality of Velas, island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Fajã de João Dias is situated 9 km northwest of São Jorge Airport.

São Jorge Airport

Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
Location: Santo Amaro, Velas Municipality, Azores, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
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Latitude

38.6655° or 38° 39′ 56″ north

Longitude

-28.1758° or 28° 10′ 33″ west

Elevation

102 metres (335 feet)

IATA airport code

SJZ

ICAO airport code

LPSJ

United Nations Location Code

PT SJZ

Open location code

89CHMR8F+6M

GeoNames ID

7668329

Wikidata ID

Q1432951

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“São Jorge Airport” goes by many names.

Arabic: “مطار ساو خورخي”
Aragonese: “Aerodromo de São Jorge”
Aragonese: “Aeropuerto de São Jorge”
Cebuano: “São Jorge Airport”
Chinese: “圣若热机场”
Chinese: “聖若熱機場”
French: “aérodrome de Portugal”
French: “aérodrome de São Jorge”
French: “Aérodrome de São Jorge”
French: “LPSJ”
French: “SJZ”
German: “Flughafen São Jorge”
Indonesian: “LPSJ”
Indonesian: “SJZ”
Japanese: “サンジョルジェ空港”
Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Sao Jorge”
Persian: “فرودگاه سائو گجاورخه”
Polish: “Port lotniczy São Jorge”
Portuguese: “Aeródromo de São Jorge”
Portuguese: “Aérodromo de São Jorge”
Romanian: “Aeroportul São Jorge”
Russian: “Сан-Жоржи (аэропорт)”
Russian: “Сан-Жоржи”
Spanish: “Aerodromo de Sao Jorge”
Spanish: “Aerodromo de São Jorge”
Spanish: “Aeródromo de Sao Jorge”
Spanish: “Aeródromo de São Jorge”
Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Sao Jorge”
Spanish: “Aeropuerto de São Jorge”
Spanish: “LPSJ”
Spanish: “SJZ”
Swedish: “São Jorge flygplats”
Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи соу гҷоврхҳ”
Vietnamese: “Sân bay São Jorge”

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