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Mirante do Mangabeiras

You can see 158 km from here, looking north.

68Viewyas Score

ViewpointSunset360°Long view

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 158 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.

68out 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).

  • 158 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 1,172 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 June 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. Janwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  2. Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  3. Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset64%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  9. Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset54%
  10. Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  12. Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  • 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

Mirante do Mangabeiras.

Observation deck in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mirante do Mangabeiras is a scenic viewpoint in Brazil, 1,172 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 158 km away, looking north.

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

The skies are clearest from June to August.

Mirante do Mangabeiras - BH - panoramio (1)
Paulo JC Nogueira · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Mirante do MangabeirasGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Mirante do MangabeirasBooking.comSee prices Car hire at PLU airport (Belo Horizonte)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.

Mirante do Mangabeiras 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 kmPraça do Papa, Mirante do Mangabeiras, Mirante da Mata and 8 more
  • 6named peaks within 5 kmPico Belo Horizonte, Pico do Grotão, Vulcãozinho and 3 more
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 kmCoreto
  • 39car parks within 3 km
  • 2visitor centres within 5 kmCentro de Informação ao Visitante do Circuito Liberdade, Terminal Turístico JK
  • 207restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmPRAÇA
  • 70places to stay within 10 kmHotel Mercure, Bristol, Royal Golden Hotel and 67 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 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 Mirante do Mangabeiras, and what is near.

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

Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Serra do Curral · 1.0 kmMorro do Pires · 9.5 kmMorro da Glória · 11 kmMorro da Cachaça · 13 kmSerra Morro do Chapéu · 15 kmSerra da Calçada · 17 kmMorro do Gama · 18 kmSerra da Moeda · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Pampulha1.5 km² · 13 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Museu de História Natural e Jardim Botânico da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · 6.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Frei Rosário Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 4 · 28 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.

Mirante do Mangabeiras - BH - panoramio
Paulo JC Nogueira · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mirantemangabeiras
Andrevruas · CC BY 3.0
Pôr-do-Sol no Mirante do Mangabeiras (Belo Horizonte-MG)
Gabrielacheloni · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

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Pico da Bandeira

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Sugarloaf Mountain

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  • 5Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10330621) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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