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Portugal Portugal scenic viewpoint

Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas

You can see 58 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 58 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.

60out 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).

  • 58 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 44%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 222 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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 in 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. Jansouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febwest28 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  5. Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  6. Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  7. Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  8. Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
  9. Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  10. Octwest24 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  11. Novsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  12. Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  • 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

Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas.

Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 222 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 58 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 44% of the horizon.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico da Vara (1,103 m), 5 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August.

Miradouro Despe-te Que Suas, Nordeste, ilha de São Miguel, Açores
José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa · Public domain

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.

Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas 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

  • 10other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro da Borda da Ladeira, Miradouro do Pesqueiro - Santana, Miradouro do Pico da Vara and 7 more
  • 2named peaks within 5 kmPico da Vara, Assomada
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmPRC07SMI Pico da Vara, Caminho Florestal de Santo António
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 16car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmPosto de Turismo do Parque da Ribeira dos Caldeirões
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmParque de Campismo da Feira, Parque de Campismo das Furnas
  • 99places to stay within 10 kmCasa Mira Mar (AL), Casa de Campo da Algarvia ou Casa do Dr. João Cabral (IPIA) (TER/CC), Basaltic House (AL) and 96 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas, and what is near.

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

Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Pico da Vara1,103 m · 5.0 kmPico do Buraco702 m · 9.4 kmGafanhoto610 m · 10 kmPico da Senhora389 m · 10 kmFurnas · 13 kmFerro294 m · 14 kmCedros518 m · 16 kmPico das Três Lagoas · 17 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Furnas Lake1.8 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Pico da VaraBortle 2 · 5.0 kmFurnas LakeBortle 2 · 14 kmLagoa do FogoBortle 3 · 24 kmIlhéu de Vila FrancaBortle 3 · 25 kmÁgua de PauBortle 3 · 26 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.

Miradouro do Despe-te-que Suas - panoramio (1)
JCNazza · CC BY 3.0
Miradouro do Despe-te-que Suas - panoramio (10)
JCNazza · CC BY 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Miradouro da Despe-te Que Suas

Portugal

  • 60Viewyas Score
  • 58 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 222 mAltitude

Miradouro do Salto do Cavalo

Portugal · 9 km

  • 71Viewyas Score
  • 107 kmFarthest ridge
  • 6Peaks in view
  • 767 mAltitude

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Miradouro do Pico do Paul

Portugal · 46 km

  • 83Viewyas Score
  • 171 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 811 mAltitude

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Boca do Inferno Viewpoint

Portugal · 47 km

  • 80Viewyas Score
  • 242 kmFarthest ridge
  • 5Peaks in view
  • 799 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10330488) · 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas

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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