Panama scenic viewpoint
La India Dormida
You can see 228 km from here, looking south-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 228 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).
- 228 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 10%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 869 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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 January to February.
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.
- Janwest22 min before the sea-level sunset69%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset74%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset64%
- Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Julwest20 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Novwest22 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset48%
- 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
La India Dormida.
Scenic viewpoint in Panama
La India Dormida is a scenic viewpoint in Panama, 869 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 228 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 10% of the horizon.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is El Valle (1,185 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from January to February.
Get there and stay
- Kare Lodgeplace to stay · 1.4 km · 36 within 10 km
- Alto de La Estancianearest town · 3.6 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Alto de La EstanciaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Alonso Valderrama Airport (CTD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight lineCar hire at BLB airport (Panamá City)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
- 12other viewpoints within 5 kmChorro macho, La India Dormida, Vista El Valle and 9 more
- 6named peaks within 5 kmCerro Gaital, Cerro Cara Iguana, Loma El Pastoreo and 3 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmchorro el macho
- 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 36places to stay within 10 kmKare Lodge, El Potosi, Canopy Lodge and 33 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 La India Dormida, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas41 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
La India Dormida
Panama
- 72Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 869 mAltitude
Volcan Baru
Panama · 264 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 3Peaks in view
- 3,445 mAltitude
Cerro Chirripó
Costa Rica · 379 km
- 87Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 3,785 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q126689867) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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