Viru Viru International Airport
Santa Cruz, Bolivia — 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 VVI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Santa Cruz.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,627 km | 2h 26m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 1,849 km | 2h 43m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,910 km | 2h 48m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,964 km | 2h 52m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,151 km | 3h 05m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 2,763 km | 3h 51m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 3,466 km | 4h 44m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 5,020 km | 6h 39m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 5,174 km | 6h 51m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 5,198 km | 6h 53m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about VVI
What is the airport code for Santa Cruz?
Viru Viru International Airport uses the IATA code VVI and the ICAO code SLVR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Viru Viru International Airport?
It sits at 17.6448° S, 63.1354° W, serving Santa Cruz in Bolivia, at an elevation of 1,224 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
