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Mirador de La Peña

You can see 141 km from here, looking east.

87Viewyas Score

ViewpointSunsetSea view360°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 141 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.

87out 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).

  • 141 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
  • 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 41%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 16Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 661 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 16 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.

Roque de los Muchachos2,426 m · 106 km · northCumbre Vieja1,944 m · 86 km · northAlto de Garajonay1,487 m · 79 km · north-eastTeide3,715 m · 141 km · eastEl Golfo2,000 m · 8.9 km · southPico de Malpaso1,500 m · 10 km · south-westTanganasoga1,384 m · 11 km · south-west

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 August to September.

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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset49%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon50%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon50%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon50%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon58%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon62%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon65%
  10. Octwestsets on an open horizon55%
  11. Novwestsets on an open horizon45%
  12. Decsouth-west6 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

Mirador de La Peña.

Cultural property in Valverde, Spain

Mirador de La Peña is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 661 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 141 km away, looking east.

The sea fills 41% of the horizon.

16 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Teide (3,715 m), 141 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from August to September.

Miradorlapeña2009
Mataparda · CC BY 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mirador de La PeñaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mirador de La PeñaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at SPC airport (Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island)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.

Mirador de La Peña 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

  • 13other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de Jinama, Mirador Playa Del Rio, Roques De Salmor and 10 more
  • 29named peaks within 5 kmMontaña de los Muertos, Montaña de los Cepones, Aguarijo and 26 more
  • 7marked trails within 3 kmCamino de la Virgen, San Andrés El Golfo por Camino de Jinama, San Andrés - Árbol Santo - Las Montañetas and 4 more
  • 5shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 8car parks within 3 km
  • 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmEco Camping Tejeguate
  • 43places to stay within 10 kmFinca La Paz, Punta Grande, Casa Nela and 40 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Mirador de La Peña, and what is near.

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

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Roque del Pozo · 3.3 kmPeña de Tejeguate · 7.0 kmHoya de Fileba1,378 m · volcano · 7.4 kmRoques de la Sal · 8.5 kmPico de Tenerife1,253 m · 8.9 kmEl Golfo2,000 m · volcano · 9.0 kmPico de Malpaso1,500 m · 10 kmTanganasoga1,384 m · volcano · 12 km
Islandyasthe island
El Hierro269 km²
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Playa De Timijiraque · 7.7 kmTimijiraque · 8.0 kmLas Playecillas · 8.9 kmPlayas Largas · 9.6 kmLas Playas · 9.7 kmPlaya del Fraile · 9.8 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
El HierroBortle 2 · 6.6 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.

Mirador de la Peña, El Hierro, Islas Canarias
Tanrod · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mirador de la Peña
Casacanarias · CC BY-SA 4.0
La Caldereta de Valverde
Mataparda · CC BY 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mirador de La Peña

Spain

  • 87Viewyas Score
  • 141 kmFarthest ridge
  • 16Peaks in view
  • 661 mAltitude

Cumbre Vieja

Spain · 86 km

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 166 kmFarthest ridge
  • 15Peaks in view
  • 1,862 mAltitude

See the guide

Teide

Spain · 141 km

  • 89Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 16Peaks in view
  • 3,688 mAltitude

See the guide

Viewpoit Pico Viejo

Spain · 141 km

  • 79Viewyas Score
  • 229 kmFarthest ridge
  • 12Peaks in view
  • 3,565 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6017982) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Darkskyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

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