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General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport (ICAO: SVPR, IATA: PZO) serves the twin city of Puerto Ordaz-Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar State, Venezuela. It offers a single long paved runway suited to airline and general aviation traffic, though it lacks an instrument landing system, making visual arrivals the norm for simulator pilots.
General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport, known locally by its IATA code PZO, is the principal airport serving Puerto Ordaz-Ciudad Guayana in Estado Bolívar, Venezuela. It is classified as a large airport handling scheduled airline service, and for the simulator pilot it presents a straightforward single-runway field set in the lowland terrain of eastern Venezuela near the confluence of the Orinoco and Caroní rivers.
The airport lies at coordinates 8.2883 N, 62.7603 W at an elevation of 456 feet, close to the urban area of Puerto Ordaz-Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar State. Radio communications are handled under the callsign Guayana Tower.
The airport has a single physical runway, 08/26, measuring 6,709 feet in length with a hard paved surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS installed, so approaches are flown visually or via non-precision means.
Air traffic services are provided under the callsign Guayana Tower. Ground movements are handled on 121.9 MHz, with the tower frequency on 118 MHz.
General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport continues to operate as a large airport with scheduled airline service into Puerto Ordaz-Ciudad Guayana.