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Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport

airport in Peru

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3566532 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo) (IATA: YMS, ICAO: SPMS) is a public airport serving Yurimaguas, a town on the Huallaga River in the Loreto Region of Peru. It is owned and operated by CORPAC S.A., a civil government agency. It was established in 1937.

The airport receives daily scheduled flights from Iquitos and Tarapoto operated by the Peruvian Air Force in an agreement with private operator SkyWay.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport” as airport in Peru. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Moisés, Benzaquén and Rengifo.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Moisés, Benzaquén and Rengifo providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Peru” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3566532. Authority coordinates are -5.894, -76.118. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.