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Nervión Waterfall

You can see 56 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 56 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.

58out 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).

  • 56 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 32Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 822 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 32 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.

Ganekogorta999 m · 29 km · northPagasarri673 m · 31 km · northLarragorri749 m · 18 km · northGanguren477 m · 37 km · northSollube684 m · 51 km · northBizkargi565 m · 42 km · north-eastEgilleor1,117 m · 17 km · north-eastAldabe1,176 m · 20 km · north-eastGorbea1,481 m · 19 km · north-eastLabazar923 m · 3.3 km · south-eastKruzeta1,171 m · 6.8 km · southVentoso727 m · 46 km · north-westIlso564 m · 30 km · northZipar632 m · 35 km · northBikirrio (Beraskola)665 m · 25 km · northPico de la Cruz802 m · 36 km · northMount Serantes452 m · 44 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 July to 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.

  1. Jansouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febwest32 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  3. Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  4. Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  5. Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  6. Junnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  7. Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  8. Augwest20 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  9. Sepwest22 min before the sea-level sunset35%
  10. Octwest28 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  11. Novsouth-west36 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  12. Decsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  • 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

Nervión Waterfall.

Waterfall in Spain

Nervión Waterfall is a scenic viewpoint in Spain, 822 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 56 km away, looking north.

32 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Gorbea (1,481 m), 19 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from July to September.

Salto nervion2023
Centenoyespelta · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Nervión Waterfall 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

  • 5other viewpoints within 5 kmSalto del Nervión, Mirador Puerto de Orduña, Mirador Esquina Rubén and 2 more
  • 36named peaks within 5 kmEstuñagan, Txarlazo, Monte Santiago and 33 more
  • 13marked trails within 3 kmCircular de los Miradores, Senda del Hayedo, Circular del Karst and 10 more
  • 4shelters and huts within 5 kmSan Bitores borda and 3 more
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmCasa del Parque Monte Santiago
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmUrduñako autokarabanen gunea, Área de autocaravanas Lartundo
  • 16places to stay within 10 kmPension Amaia, Santorkari Casa Rural, Hotel Casa Doña Lola and 13 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 Nervión Waterfall, and what is near.

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

Peakyas63 mountains within 25 km
Ungino1,105 m · 14 kmEskutxi1,180 m · 16 kmUsotegieta1,188 m · 17 kmCarrias1,130 m · 18 kmBachicabo1,200 m · 18 kmGorbea1,481 m · 19 kmRecuenco1,239 m · 22 kmRevillallanos1,281 m · 22 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Los Goros · 14 kmCaves of Gaubea · 17 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.

Salto del Nervion 0001
Dieglop · CC BY-SA 4.0
Salto del Río Nervión
Hibiscus7 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Salto del Nervión (Alava-Burgos, España) - panoramio
Pintafontes Senapeli… · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3331650) · 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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