Honduras summit
Cerro Las Minas
You can see 240 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 240 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).
- 240 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 20Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,842 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 20 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 February to March.
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.
- Janwestsets on an open horizon51%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon56%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon27%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julwestsets on an open horizon28%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon21%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon49%
- 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
Cerro Las Minas.
Mountain in Lempira Department, Honduras
Cerro Las Minas is a summit in Honduras, 2,842 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 240 km away, looking north.
20 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Cerro El Pital (2,730 m), 50 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from February to March.
Get there and stay
- El Naranjitocampsite · 1.9 km · 2 within 10 km
- hotel patyplace to stay · 8.7 km · 4 within 10 km
- San Manuel de Colohetenearest town · 9.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in San Manuel de ColoheteBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ilopango International Airport (ILS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 104 km in a straight lineCar hire at SAL airport (San Salvador)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmCerro Las Minas, Cerró El Gallo, Torre de Avistamiento de Aves de Celaque and 2 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmCerro Las Minas
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmEl Naranjito, Campamento Don Tomás
- 4places to stay within 10 kmhotel paty, Hotel Camino Real Lenca, Hotel El Trapiche and 1 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Cerro Las Minas, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas35 mountains within 25 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.
Cerro Las Minas
Honduras
- 82Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 2,842 mAltitude
San Miguel
El Salvador · 130 km
- 94Viewyas Score
- 239 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 2,093 mAltitude
Santa Ana Volcano
El Salvador · 127 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 190 kmFarthest ridge
- 18Peaks in view
- 2,365 mAltitude
Izalco
El Salvador · 130 km
- 92Viewyas Score
- 220 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 1,929 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1055875) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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