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Quebrada de los Cuervos

You can see 45 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 45 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.

52out 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).

  • 45 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 59 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 in April and from November to January.

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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  2. Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  3. Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  5. Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  6. Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset42%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  8. Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  9. Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  10. Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  11. Novwest4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  12. Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  • 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

Quebrada de los Cuervos.

Landform in Uruguay, protected area

Quebrada de los Cuervos is a canyon rim in Uruguay, 59 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 45 km away, looking north.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in April and from November to January.

Amanecer en La Quebrada de los Cuervos
Caritocabrera · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Quebrada de los Cuervos 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

  • 2campsites within 10 kmZona Camping
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmHotel 33 and 3 more
  • 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

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 Quebrada de los Cuervos, and what is near.

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

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Cerro de la Estancia · 11 kmCerro del Avestruz · 13 kmCerro Tía Joaquina · 13 kmCerro del Volcadero · 14 kmCerro de Olimar · 18 kmCerro de la Bolsa · 19 kmSierra de Sosa · 23 kmCerro Redondo · 23 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Quebrada de los Cuervos · this placeQuebrada de los Cuervos · 2.7 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.

Abajo en la Quebrada
Carol.TM · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arroyo Yerbal, Quebrada de los Cuervos, Treinta y Tres
Chiai di Luna · CC BY-SA 3.0
ArroyoQuebrada
Pablofor · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Quebrada de los Cuervos

Uruguay

  • 52Viewyas Score
  • 45 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 59 mAltitude

Cerro Catedral

Uruguay · 137 km

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 111 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 507 mAltitude

See the guide

Cerro San Antonio

Uruguay · 205 km

  • 72Viewyas Score
  • 66 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 127 mAltitude

See the guide

Torre Monumental

Argentina · 395 km

  • 58Viewyas Score
  • 18 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 12 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6094310) · 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, Canyonyas

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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