Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Aeropuertos Uruguay | ||||||||||
Serves | Rivera, Uruguay Santana do Livramento, Brazil | ||||||||||
Location | Rivera, Uruguay | ||||||||||
Opened | 16 June 1979 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 712 ft / 217 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 30°58′10″S 55°28′24″W / 30.96944°S 55.47333°W | ||||||||||
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Sources: DINACIA[1] |
Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport (IATA: RVY, ICAO: SURV), formerly called Cerro Chapeu International Airport, is binational airport serving both the cities of Rivera, Uruguay, and Santana do Livramento, Brazil.
The airport was opened on June 16, 1979, and in 1999 was named after Óscar Diego Gestido, President of Uruguay during 1967.
On August 14, 2023 Uruguay and Brazil signed an agreement to binationalize the airport. According to this agreement, as a binational facility, flights originated in Brazil are treated as domestic, even though the facility is in Uruguayan territory.[2][3][4]
This is the first bi-national airport in Latin America and second in the world, after EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg.[5]
There are low wooded hills north and east of the runway. The Tacuarembó VOR-DME (Ident: TMB) is located 51.9 nautical miles (96 km) south-southwest of the airport. The Rivera non-directional beacon (Ident: RV) is located on the field.[6][7]
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.
The airport is 11 kilometres (7 mi) southeast of Rivera and 12 kilometres (7 mi) southeast of Santana do Livramento.