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Torre Torre

You can see 96 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 96 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).

  • 96 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 84%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 12Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,487 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 12 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 from June to August.

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. Janwest14 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  2. Febwest14 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  3. Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  4. Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  5. Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  7. Julwest10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  8. Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  9. Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  10. Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  11. Novwest14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  12. Decsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  • 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

Torre Torre.

Cliff in Peru

Torre Torre is a cliff in Peru, 3,487 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 96 km away, looking west.

12 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Tunshu (5,660 m), 89 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 84% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from June to August.

Torre Torre (Huancayo)
Huallallo · 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.

Torre Torre 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmCerrito de la Libertad
  • 8car parks within 3 km
  • 137restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmRecreo Campestre Luisa Maria
  • 115places to stay within 10 kmcasa de la abuela, Hospedaje Wanca cochera, Mayolo cochera and 112 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

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 Torre Torre, and what is near.

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

Peakyas114 mountains within 25 km
Cerrito de la Libertad · 1.6 kmKawituyuq4,803 m · 16 kmCerro Chaupiorcco · 17 kmYana Ucsha (Junin)5,300 m · 19 kmQalla Qhata5,200 m · 21 kmCerro Cunchaloma · 22 kmNevado Cochas · 23 kmPutkaqucha5,236 m · 24 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.

Torre Torre Huancayo
Huallallo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Torre torre
Ozesama · CC BY-SA 4.0
Torre Torre
Marco Pocomucha · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Torre Torre

Peru

  • 58Viewyas Score
  • 96 kmFarthest ridge
  • 12Peaks in view
  • 3,487 mAltitude

Huayna Picchu

Peru · 311 km

  • 48Viewyas Score
  • 50 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 2,991 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5863908) · 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

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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