Spain scenic viewpoint
Mirador de les Barques
You can see 79 km from here, looking south-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 79 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).
- 79 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 91%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 26%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 425 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 from July 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.
- Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon40%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon50%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon62%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon70%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon50%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- 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 les Barques.
Mirador de les Barques is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 425 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 79 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 26% of the horizon.
7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Teix (1,064 m), 8 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 91% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Fornalutxplace to stay · 1.8 km · 135 within 10 km
- Fornalutxnearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in FornalutxBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 27 km in a straight lineCar hire at PMI airport (Palma de Mallorca)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
- 33other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador des Pujol d'en Banya, es Cornador gran, Es Pujol d'en Banya and 30 more
- 27named peaks within 5 kmPuig de l'Ofre, Bens d'Avall, es Queixal and 24 more
- 11marked trails within 3 kmPort de Sóller - Sóller, Camí Vell, Camí vell de Fornalutx a sa Figuera and 8 more
- 4shelters and huts within 5 kmels Cornadors, Refugi de Xim Joy (s'Alova), Cúber and 1 more
- 65car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmOficina Municipal de Turisme de Sóller
- 126restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 135places to stay within 10 kmFornalutx, Can Reus, Hostal Nadal and 132 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 les Barques, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas60 mountains within 25 km
Coastya4 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 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.
Mirador de les Barques
Spain
- 69Viewyas Score
- 79 kmFarthest ridge
- 7Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Mirador d'en Josep Sastre
Spain · 36 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 452 mAltitude
Mirador de la Rabassada
Spain · 189 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 194 kmFarthest ridge
- 292Peaks in view
- 423 mAltitude
Mirador de la Mitja lluna
Spain · 187 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 193Peaks in view
- 203 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q18004800) · 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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