Brazil scenic viewpoint
Mirante São Luís
You can see 78 km from here, looking north-east.
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 78 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).
- 78 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 823 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.
- Janwest10 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Maywest6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset59%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset65%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset54%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Novwest12 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west10 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 São Luís.
Scenic viewpoint in Lagoa da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte
Mirante São Luís is a scenic viewpoint in Brazil, 823 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 78 km away, looking north-east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- PRAÇAcampsite · 5.7 km · 3 within 10 km
- Hotel Portinariplace to stay · 1.8 km · 97 within 10 km
- Belo Horizontenearest town · 8.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Belo HorizonteBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Tancredo Neves International Airport (CNF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at CNF airport (Belo Horizonte)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
- 10other viewpoints within 5 kmMirante do Bemtivi, Mirante Kubitschek, Mirante Oscar Niemeyer and 7 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 87car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmCentro de Referência Turística de de Belo Horizonte Alvaro Hardy - "Veveco", Centro de Referência Turística de Belo Horizonte Álvaro Hardy - Veveco
- 64restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmPRAÇA, Cemig Anel Rodoviário
- 97places to stay within 10 kmHotel Portinari, Single Flat, Bristol Jaraguá Hotel and 94 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- 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 São Luís, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mirante São Luís
Brazil
- 58Viewyas Score
- 78 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 823 mAltitude
Mirante do Mangabeiras
Brazil · 13 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,172 mAltitude
Pico da Bandeira
Brazil · 237 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 2,858 mAltitude
Sugarloaf Mountain
Brazil · 354 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 295 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q130380319) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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