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Cotuahusi canion

You can see 39 km from here, looking north-east.

36Viewyas Score

Canyon rim

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 39 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.

36out of 100

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).

  • 39 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 70%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,045 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 1 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.

Cerro Aycano4,551 m · 36 km · north-east

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 from May to August.

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.

  1. Janwest102 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  2. Febwest102 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  3. Marwest124 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  4. Aprnorth-west146 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  5. Maynorth-west158 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  6. Junnorth-west164 min before the sea-level sunset78%
  7. Julnorth-west160 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  8. Augnorth-west152 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  9. Sepwest132 min before the sea-level sunset72%
  10. Octwest112 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  11. Novwest100 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  12. Decwest100 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  • 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

Cotuahusi canion.

Cotahuasi Canyon

Cotuahusi canion is a canyon rim in Peru, 2,045 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 39 km away, looking north-east.

1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Cerro Aycano (4,551 m), 36 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 70% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to August.

Cotahuasi Canyon, Peru (ASTER)
NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team · Public domain

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Cotuahusi canionGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Cotuahusi canionBooking.comSee prices Car hire in ArequipaDiscover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Cotuahusi canion seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmCasa de Lady, Hospedaje Plaza Quechualla, Hospedaje Las Viñas and 2 more
  • named peaks within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Cotuahusi canion, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas50 mountains within 25 km
Puka Urqu4,923 m · 10 kmLujmani5,000 m · 13 kmCerro Uchuy Yaretayoc4,855 m · 15 kmCerro Antapunco4,904 m · 19 kmHuiñao3,645 m · 20 kmCerro Pallallayoc4,407 m · 20 kmSolimana6,093 m · volcano · 21 kmCerro Sapatagra5,208 m · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cotuahusi canionBortle 1 · this place
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cotuahusi canion · this placeCotuahusi canion · 1.8 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Catarata de Sipia · 8.3 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Cañon del Cotahuasi 05
Futuropopular · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bosque de cactus de Judío Pampa
Sardatanas · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

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Peru

  • 36Viewyas Score
  • 39 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 2,045 mAltitude

Misti

Peru · 207 km

  • 90Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 166Peaks in view
  • 5,786 mAltitude

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Huayna Picchu

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  • 48Viewyas Score
  • 50 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 2,991 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2936928) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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