Desierto de Atacama Airport
Copiapo, Chile — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from CPO to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Copiapo.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 682 km | 1h 16m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,436 km | 2h 12m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,819 km | 2h 41m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,476 km | 3h 30m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,811 km | 3h 55m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 3,572 km | 4h 51m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 4,145 km | 5h 34m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 5,643 km | 7h 26m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 5,987 km | 7h 51m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 6,015 km | 7h 54m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CPO
What is the airport code for Copiapo?
Desierto de Atacama Airport uses the IATA code CPO and the ICAO code SCAT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Desierto de Atacama Airport?
It sits at 27.2612° S, 70.7792° W, serving Copiapo in Chile, at an elevation of 670 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
