get_colombia_airports: Get Colombia's Airports from API Colombia

In ColombiAPI: Access Colombian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets

Get Colombia's Airports from API Colombia

Description

Retrieves comprehensive information about all Colombian airports from the API Colombia service. This function fetches data including airport names, codes, types, locations, and geographical coordinates for all airports across Colombia's departments.

Usage

get_colombia_airports()

Details

This function sends a GET request to the API Colombia service. If the API request fails or returns an error status code, the function returns NULL with an informative message. Note: The API returns latitude and longitude values swapped, so this function corrects the coordinates by swapping them back to their correct positions.

Value

A tibble with the following columns:

• id: Airport identifier (integer)

• name: Airport name (character)

• iata_code: IATA airport code (character)

• oaci_code: ICAO airport code (character)

• type: Airport type (character)

• city: City where airport is located (character)

• department: Department where airport is located (character)

• latitude: Latitude coordinates (numeric)

• longitude: Longitude coordinates (numeric)

Note

Requires internet connection.

Source

API Colombia: https://api-colombia.com/api/v1/Airport

See Also

GET, fromJSON, as_tibble

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  get_colombia_airports()
}

ColombiAPI documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:59 p.m.