Padre Aldamiz International Airport — Puerto Maldonado, Peru

Padre Aldamiz International Airport (PEM) serves Puerto Maldonado, the gateway city to Peru's southeastern Amazon rainforest and the Tambopata and Manu biosphere reserves. Despite bearing an international designation, PEM primarily handles domestic flights from Lima and Cusco, funneling the steady stream of ecotourists heading to jungle lodges along the Madre de Dios and Tambopata rivers. The airport is named after a Spanish missionary who worked extensively in the Peruvian Amazon. Puerto Maldonado also serves as a logistics hub for gold mining and Brazil nut harvesting in the region, meaning PEM handles a mix of tourism traffic and cargo tied to the area's extractive and agricultural industries.