Uruguay scenic viewpoint
Cerro San Antonio
You can see 66 km from here, looking west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 66 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 66 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 46%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 127 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 7 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in March and from November to January.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Cerro San Antonio.
Hill in Piriapolis, Uruguay
Cerro San Antonio is a scenic viewpoint in Uruguay, 127 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 66 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 46% of the horizon.
7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Cerro de las Ánimas (501 m), 15 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in March and from November to January.
Get there and stay
- Camping Piriápoliscampsite · 1.9 km · 3 within 10 km
- Ricadi Hotelplace to stay · 0.6 km · 31 within 10 km
- Piriápolisnearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in PiriápolisBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Capitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDP airport (Punta del Este)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 3other viewpoints within 5 kmVista de Piriápolis, Camino Corta Fuego
- 5named peaks within 5 kmCerro San Antonio, Cerro del Toro, Cerro de las Espinas and 2 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 18restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Piriápolis, Camping AEBU, Piedra Mora
- 31places to stay within 10 kmRicadi Hotel, Colón, Hotel Tamariz and 28 more
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Cerro San Antonio, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas31 mountains within 25 km
Coastya3 beaches within 10 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Cerro San Antonio
Uruguay
- 72Viewyas Score
- 66 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 127 mAltitude
Cerro Catedral
Uruguay · 78 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 111 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 507 mAltitude
Quebrada de los Cuervos
Uruguay · 205 km
- 52Viewyas Score
- 45 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 59 mAltitude
Torre Monumental
Argentina · 285 km
- 58Viewyas Score
- 18 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1055949) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Coastya |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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