Teniente General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport — Atalaya, Peru

Teniente General Gerardo Pérez Pinedo Airport serves Atalaya, a town in Peru's Ucayali Region within the western edge of the Amazon basin. Elevation here is only 751 feet, far lower than Peru's Andean airports, since Atalaya sits within lowland rainforest rather than the mountains. A single runway supports the light aircraft traffic linking Atalaya to other Amazonian towns, since roads remain scarce across this stretch of Peru. Nearest airports sit far off: Francisco Carle Airport is about 220 kilometers away, Ayacucho's AYP is roughly 274 kilometers out, and Cap FAP David Abenzur Rengifo International Airport is about 276 kilometers away. AYX serves as one of several jungle airstrips keeping isolated Amazonian communities connected to the rest of Peru.