Governador Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira International Airport — Porto Velho, Brazil

Governador Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira International Airport, identified as PVH, serves Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state in Brazil's western Amazon region, on the banks of the Madeira River. The city grew up around the rubber trade and later the Madeira-Mamore Railway, a historically difficult construction project whose remnants still mark the local landscape, and the airport today reflects that legacy as a modern link between a remote frontier region and the rest of Brazil. PVH handles domestic flights connecting Porto Velho to major hubs like Brasilia, Sao Paulo, and Manaus, since road access into and out of the region can be slow and seasonally affected by heavy rain. For researchers, ranchers, and increasingly ecotourists, the airport functions as the practical entry point into a swath of the Amazon basin where river transport still dominates local travel far more than highways ever have.