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Llullaillaco

You can see 249 km from here, looking north.

85Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°Long viewMany peaks

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 249 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.

85out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 13Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 6,728 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 13 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 Miscanti5,622 m · 143 km · north-eastSocompa6,051 m · 46 km · north-eastCordón de Puntas Negras5,852 m · 148 km · north-eastSalín6,022 m · 64 km · north-eastCerros de Incahuasi5,704 m · 126 km · north-eastAracar6,082 m · 90 km · north-eastAntofalla6,409 m · 115 km · south-eastLa Aguada5,780 m · 125 km · south-eastAbra Grande5,391 m · 89 km · southCerro Bayo Complex5,401 m · 77 km · south

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 March to April and from October to November.

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. Jansouth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  2. Febwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset67%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  4. Aprwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  5. Maywest-8 min before the sea-level sunset69%
  6. Junnorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  7. Julnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  8. Augwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset68%
  9. Sepwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  10. Octwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset76%
  11. Novwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset78%
  12. Decsouth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset75%
  • 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

Llullaillaco.

Stratovolcano in Chile and Argentina

Llullaillaco is a volcano in Argentina, 6,728 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north.

13 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Socompa (6,051 m), 46 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from March to April and from October to November.

Llullaillaco from Base Camp on western slopes. See bobvillarreal.com for more.
Alex1jas · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for LlullaillacoGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near LlullaillacoBooking.comSee prices Car hire at ANF airport (Antofagasta)Discover 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.

Llullaillaco 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

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks within 5 km
    • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
    • marked trails within 3 km
    • shelters and huts within 5 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • visitor centres within 5 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay 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 Llullaillaco, and what is near.

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

    Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
    Llullaillaco · this placeLlullaillaco6,723 m · volcano · this placeCerro Silla · 8.5 kmCerro Rosado · 9.4 kmCerro Inca · 14 kmCerro de la Carpa · 17 kmCerro Mellado · 20 kmCorrida de Cori · 23 kmCerro Sur Bayo · 24 km
    Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
    LlullaillacoBortle 1 · this place

    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.

    Llullaillaco Sunset
    Lion Hirth (User:Prissantenbär) · Public domain
    Paranal Observatory and the Volcano Llullaillaco
    ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com) · CC BY 4.0
    Parque Nacional Llullaillaco, Chile
    Chile365 · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Other viewpoints nearby.

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    Argentina

    • 85Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 13Peaks in view
    • 6,728 mAltitude

    Licancabur

    Chile · 220 km

    • 85Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 58Peaks in view
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    Ojos del Salado

    Chile · 266 km

    • 83Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 14Peaks in view
    • 6,859 mAltitude

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    Incahuasi

    Argentina · 258 km

    • 80Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 16Peaks in view
    • 6,575 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q214916) · 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

    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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