| La Managua Airport | |
| Iata: | XQP |
| Icao: | MRQP |
| Type: | Public |
| Operator: | DGAC |
| City-Served: | Quepos, Costa Rica |
| Elevation-F: | 85 |
| Coordinates: | 9.4431°N -84.13°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Costa Rica |
| Pushpin Label: | XQP |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Costa Rica |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 04/22 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1340 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2017 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers[1] |
| Stat1-Data: | 35,752 |
| Stat2-Header: | Passenger change 16–17 |
| Stat2-Data: | 5.2% |
| Footnotes: | Source: AIP[2] GCM SkyVector[3] |
La Managua Airport is an airport approximately 3km (02miles) east of the Pacific coastal city of Quepos, Costa Rica, serving this city as well as the Manuel Antonio National Park and other tourist attractions in the central part of Puntarenas Province. The airport is named for the La Managua barrio where it is located. The airport is owned and managed by the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC).
La Managua Airport is the fourth-busiest in the country by passenger traffic and the second-busiest domestic-only airport after Puerto Jiménez Airport. These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica's Statistical Yearbooks.
| Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | 36,292 | 30,588 | 27,550 | 22,892 | 32,717 | 29,872 | 33,999 | 35,752 | |
| Growth (%) | 16.05% | 15.72% | 9.93% | 16.91% | 42.92% | 8.70% | 13.82% | 5.16% | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2010,[4] 2011,[5] 2012,[6] 2013,[7] 2014,[8] 2015,[9] 2016,[10] and 2017[11]) | |||||||||
| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | 27,562 | 28,554 | 25,608 | 24,829 | 38,240 | 39,773 | 49,349 | 56,020 | 51,992 | 43,228 | |
| Growth (%) | N.A. | 3.60% | 10.32% | 3.04% | 54.01% | 4.01% | 24.08% | 13.52% | 7.19% | 16.86% | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2000-2005,[12] 2006,[13] 2007,[14] 2008,[15] and 2009[16]) | |||||||||||