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Argentina Argentina summit

Monte Pissis

You can see 249 km from here, looking north-east.

82Viewyas Score

SummitSunset360°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 249 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.

82out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 16Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 6,777 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.

Nevado Tres Cruces6,749 m · 73 km · northCerro Solo6,190 m · 72 km · northCumbre del Laudo6,152 m · 142 km · northOjos del Salado6,893 m · 76 km · northNevado6,000 m · 85 km · north-eastCerro del Nacimiento6,436 m · 60 km · north-eastIncahuasi6,621 m · 94 km · north-eastCopiapó volcano6,052 m · 60 km · north-westLos Patos6,239 m · 50 km · north

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 March to April and from November to December.

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 sunset56%
  2. Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset65%
  4. Aprwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset62%
  5. Maywest-6 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  6. Junnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset56%
  7. Julnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  8. Augwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset59%
  9. Sepwest-6 min before the sea-level sunset58%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset60%
  11. Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
  12. Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset63%
  • 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

Monte Pissis.

Extinct volcano in the province of La Rioja in Argentina

Monte Pissis is a summit in Argentina, 6,777 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north-east.

16 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Ojos del Salado (6,893 m), 76 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from March to April and from November to December.

Pissis from high camp (5,900 m)
Silvio1973 · 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 Monte PissisGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Monte PissisBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CPO airport (Copiapo)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.

Monte Pissis 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

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks within 5 km
    • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
    • marked trails within 3 km
    • shelters and huts within 5 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • visitor centres within 5 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 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 Monte Pissis, and what is near.

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

    Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
    Monte Pissis · this placeMonte Pissis6,795 m · 0.1 kmCerro del Nacimiento del Jagüé · 4.9 kmCerro Bonete · 11 kmCerro Bonete Grande5,943 m · 14 kmNacimientos del Jague · 18 kmMonte Parofes · 19 kmDel Veladero6,436 m · 22 kmReclus6 m · 22 km
    Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
    Monte PissisBortle 1 · this placeCerro BoneteBortle 1 · 30 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.

    Monte Pissis, Argentina. The western walls are in view.
    Alex1jas · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Balcon del Pissis
    Aprendiendo2024 · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Other viewpoints nearby.

    Monte Pissis

    Argentina

    • 82Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 16Peaks in view
    • 6,777 mAltitude

    Ojos del Salado

    Chile · 76 km

    • 83Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 14Peaks in view
    • 6,859 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Incahuasi

    Argentina · 94 km

    • 80Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 16Peaks in view
    • 6,575 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Llullaillaco

    Argentina · 339 km

    • 85Viewyas Score
    • 249 kmFarthest ridge
    • 13Peaks in view
    • 6,728 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q586212) · 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, Darkskyas

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

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