Brazil scenic viewpoint
Vista Chinesa
You can see 130 km from here, looking east.
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 130 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).
- 130 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 92%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 28%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 440 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 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.
- Janwest48 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Febwest54 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Marwest48 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Maynorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset44%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset51%
- Julnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Augwest28 min before the sea-level sunset55%
- Sepwest46 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Octwest52 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novwest50 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decwest50 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Vista Chinesa.
Vista Chinesa is a scenic viewpoint in Brazil, 440 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 130 km away, looking east.
The sea fills 28% of the horizon.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sugarloaf Mountain (395 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 92% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from June to August.
Get there and stay
- Descampado com bancos de troncoscampsite · 4.7 km · 3 within 10 km
- Escort Motelplace to stay · 2.3 km · 381 within 10 km
- Rocinhanearest town · 1.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in RocinhaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at SDU airport (Rio de Janeiro)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
- 46other viewpoints within 5 kmIrmão Menor, Pico da Tijuca, Irmão Maior and 43 more
- 67named peaks within 5 kmPedra da Gávea, Irmão Menor, Pedra Bonita and 64 more
- 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmRegina Coeli
- 1marked trails within 3 kmCaminho da Pedra Bonita
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 48car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 kmCentro de Visitantes, Tourist Information, Visit Rio and 2 more
- 110restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmDescampado com bancos de troncos, AP do Rio de Janeiro
- 381places to stay within 10 kmEscort Motel, Hotel Shalimar, Motel Sinless and 378 more
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 Vista Chinesa, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas287 mountains within 25 km
Coastya18 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas12 waterfalls within 15 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.
Vista Chinesa
Brazil
- 72Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 440 mAltitude
Sugarloaf Mountain
Brazil · 10 km
- 83Viewyas Score
- 187 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 295 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7936437) · 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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