El Alcaraván Airport, also known as El Alcaraván, is an airport serving the city of Yopal, the capital of the Casanare Department of Colombia. The airport is on the southeast edge of the city.Although the airport operates only domestic flights between Bogotá and Bucaramanga, it is classified as an international airport because it has an immigration facility. El Alcaraván has airport police, hangars, commercial offices, modules, boarding zone, gas station, waiting room and many passenger facilities such as restaurants, cafeterias, and souvenir stores.The El Yopal VOR-DME (Ident: EYP) is located 2.9nmi off the approach threshold of Runway 05.The passenger airlines that currently operate flights from and to the city of Yopal are LATAM Airlines Colombia, Avianca and EasyFly, and there were others like Satena that ceased operations in this route. Due to the good economy of the department of Casanare, based on petroleum, there has been an increase in the number of people using the airport; for that reason, it is being remodeled and new routes are being studied by airlines.HistoryIn 1965 started the first commercial flights in Yopal when Aerotaxi Casanare S.A. was founded, it was the only airline until 1992 when the Aeronautica Civil allows Aires S.A. to operate in this airport.In 1996, Ecopetrol, British Petroleum, and others companies were interested in the petroleum that the department has and decided to invest 6100 millions of pesos for improving the runway and offices with the goal of adapting the airport to allow the Antonov 124 a safe landing.