Spain scenic viewpoint
Mirador del Río
You can see 82 km from here, looking north.
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 82 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).
- 82 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 46%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 454 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 8 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 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.
- Jansouth-westsets on an open horizon43%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon58%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- 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 del Río.
Architectural structure
Mirador del Río is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 454 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 82 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 46% of the horizon.
8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Famara (671 m), 11 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 10:00-16:45 · ticket required
- Finca de Arrietacampsite · 9.9 km · 1 within 10 km
- Evita Beach Apto y Suitesplace to stay · 2.8 km · 14 within 10 km
- Haríanearest town · 7.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HaríaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (ACE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at ACE airport (San Bartolomé)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmLas Rositas, Mirador de Guinate, Mirador de la Caldera and 10 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmAgujas Chicas, Morro de las Pedreras, Morros del Rodaje and 2 more
- 6marked trails within 3 kmEtapa 1, Ruta del Pedro Barba, Ruta del Norte and 3 more
- 18car parks within 3 km
- 26restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmFinca de Arrieta
- 14places to stay within 10 kmEvita Beach Apto y Suites, Alojamiento Santa Rosa La Graciosa, Apartamentos Herederos and 11 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts 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 del Río, 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
Coastya11 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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 del Río
Spain
- 72Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 454 mAltitude
Morro Velosa
Spain · 103 km
- 93Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 665 mAltitude
Roque Nublo
Spain · 250 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 1,731 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q287592) · 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, 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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