Spain scenic viewpoint
Morro Velosa
You can see 248 km from here, looking 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 248 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).
- 248 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 65%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 15Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 665 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 15 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 June and from August to October.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset63%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon62%
- Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset62%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset66%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset67%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon72%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon66%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset61%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon61%
- 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
Morro Velosa.
Morro Velosa is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 665 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 248 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 65% of the horizon.
15 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Famara (671 m), 92 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in June and from August to October.
Get there and stay
- Hombase neuplace to stay · 2.6 km · 13 within 10 km
- Antiguanearest town · 3.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AntiguaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Fuerteventura Airport (FUE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at FUE airport (El Matorral)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de Valle de las Cuevas, Morro Velosa, Morro de la Cruz and 2 more
- 50named peaks within 5 kmAtalaya, Morro de la Cruz, Morro de Tegetuno and 47 more
- 2marked trails within 3 kmCamino Natural de Fuerteventura, Betancuria - Degollada Vieja - Antigua
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 12car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTaquila y tienda
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 13places to stay within 10 kmHombase neu, Aula de la Naturaleza de Parra Medina, Era de La Corte and 10 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 Morro Velosa, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Coastya4 beaches within 10 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.
Morro Velosa
Spain
- 93Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 15Peaks in view
- 665 mAltitude
Mirador del Río
Spain · 103 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 454 mAltitude
Roque Nublo
Spain · 162 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 236 kmFarthest ridge
- 14Peaks in view
- 1,731 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q42432408) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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