The Vilo Acuna Airport is a small-size airport serving the small resort island of Cayo Largo del Sur, also known simply as CAYO LARGO. This tiny island is part of the Canarreos archipelago located South of the main island of Cuba. The largest island of this archipelago is Isla de la Juventud (Youth island).

It’s a small airport with limited facilities and services. The Terminal is divided into 2 side-by-side buildings: Arrivals building and Departures building. The terminal is air-conditionned and non-smoking, expect in one designated area. For more info click the Airport Facilities links in the right menu.

There’s no jet bridge, mobile staircases are used for embarking and disembarking passengers onto the tarmac.

The Vilo Acuna aiport was named in memory of Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez (pseudonym Vilo) (1925-1967), a farmer form the Sierra Mastrea region who helped the rebels leb by Fidel Castro in their fight to overthrow the Batista government during the Cuban Revolution. In November 1958 he was raised into the rank of a Comandante. He was joint founder of the communist party of Cuba (PCC) in the year 1965 and member of the central committee. He died under the bullets of the Bolivian army on August 31st 1967 in the guerrilla war conducted by the famous revolutionary Ernesto « Che » Guevara.

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