Argentina / Brazil canyon rim
Devil's Throat
You can see 13 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 13 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).
- 13 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 94%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 166 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 July to September.
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.
- Janwest40 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Febwest38 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest38 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest38 min before the sea-level sunset49%
- Maynorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Junnorth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- Augwest38 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Sepwest36 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Octwest38 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Novwest38 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Decsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- 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
Devil's Throat.
Part of the Iguazu falls
Devil's Throat is a canyon rim in Argentina, 166 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 13 km away, looking north.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 94% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Camping El Ñandúcampsite · 1.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- Belmond Hotel das Cataratasplace to stay · 1.3 km · 9 within 10 km
- Puerto Iguazúnearest town · 18 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Puerto IguazúBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Cataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at IGR airport (Puerto Iguazu)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
- 29other viewpoints within 5 kmMirante Foz do Iguaçu, Torre Tanque, Mirador Salto Eva and 26 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmYvyrá Retá
- 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping El Ñandú, Clube do Brasil
- 9places to stay within 10 kmBelmond Hotel das Cataratas, Gran Meliá Iguazú, San Martin Hotel and 6 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
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 Devil's Throat, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
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.
Devil's Throat
Argentina
- 42Viewyas Score
- 13 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 166 mAltitude
Cerro Tres Kandú
Paraguay · 174 km
- 68Viewyas Score
- 134 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 825 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11699394) · 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 | Canyonyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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