Presidente Perón International Airport — Neuquén, Argentina

Neuquén's airport carries the name of Juan Domingo Perón, the mid-20th-century Argentine president whose political legacy still shapes how public infrastructure gets named across the country. Assigned the code NQN, the facility sits at nearly 900 feet elevation on the arid Patagonian plateau where the Neuquén and Limay rivers converge to form the Río Negro, a confluence visible from aircraft on approach. Beyond connecting this provincial capital to Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities via Aerolíneas Argentinas, the airport has taken on outsized importance as the logistical gateway to Vaca Muerta, one of the largest shale oil and gas formations in the world, drawing energy-sector workers and equipment through Neuquén rather than smaller towns. The surrounding region also produces wine and fruit under irrigation from the same rivers, giving NQN a passenger mix blending agricultural business, energy investment, and tourism to nearby lakes and mountains.