Santiago Perez Quiroz Airport is a regional airport that serves the city of Arauca, the capital of the Department of Arauca Colombia. The airport is located within the vicinity of the municipality of Arauca, close to the river Arauca and is practically constituted as a border airport in fact it is called "lapuerta a la frontera" receives mostly domestic passenger and cargo flights to Bogotá and intermediate cities such as Bucaramanga, Villavicencio and El Yopal among others.