Mexico canyon rim
Sumidero Canyon
You can see 3 km from here, looking south.
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 3 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).
- 3 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 58%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 982 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 March to April.
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-west70 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Febwest56 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Marwest58 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Aprwest60 min before the sea-level sunset56%
- Maywest68 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Junwest64 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julwest66 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Augwest64 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest58 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Octwest54 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west68 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Decsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- 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
Sumidero Canyon.
Canyon of the Grijalva River in Chiapas, Mexico
Sumidero Canyon is a canyon rim in Mexico, 982 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 3 km away, looking south.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 58% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to April.
Get there and stay
- Chiapas Hotel Expressplace to stay · 8.2 km · 8 within 10 km
- Álvaro Obregónnearest town · 9.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Álvaro ObregónBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Angel Albino Corzo International Airport (TGZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at VSA airport (Villahermosa)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador El Tepehuaje, Mirador La Coyota, Parking Roblar; Mirador Roblar and 1 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 8places to stay within 10 kmChiapas Hotel Express, Casa del Abuelo, Álamos and 5 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- campsites 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 Sumidero Canyon, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas50 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons 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.
Sumidero Canyon
Mexico
- 15Viewyas Score
- 3 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 982 mAltitude
El Chichón
Mexico · 58 km
- 64Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 1,027 mAltitude
Volcán Tajumulco
Guatemala · 239 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 248 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 4,200 mAltitude
Santa María
Guatemala · 286 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 235 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 3,744 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q775138) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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