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Argentina Argentina summit

Tupungato Volcano

You can see 249 km from here, looking north-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 249 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.

84out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 21Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 6,557 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 21 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 December 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.

  1. Jansouth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset47%
  2. Febwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset48%
  3. Marwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset50%
  4. Aprwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset44%
  5. Maywest-6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  6. Junnorth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  7. Julnorth-west-6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  8. Augwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  9. Sepwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
  10. Octwest-8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novsouth-west-8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  12. Decsouth-west-10 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  • 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

Tupungato Volcano.

Volcanic dome in the Andes

Tupungato Volcano is a summit in Argentina, 6,557 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking north-east.

The sea fills 12% of the horizon.

21 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Aconcagua (6,962 m), 82 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from December to March.

Aconcagua y Tupungato
Dropus · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Tupungato Volcano 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

  • 3named peaks within 5 kmVolcán Tupungatito, Cumbre Norte, Cumbre Sur
  • 4campsites within 10 kmArgentinos, Piedra del Huanaco, El Hito and 1 more
  • other viewpoints within 5 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • places to stay 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 Tupungato Volcano, and what is near.

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

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Tupungato Volcano · this placeTupungato Volcano6,635 m · this placeTupungatito5,650 m · volcano · 7.8 kmAlto San Juan6,148 m · 13 kmCerro Yesera · 14 kmNevado Piquenes6,019 m · 18 kmCerro de la Pollera · 19 kmNevado de los Piuquenes · 19 kmMorro Rabicano · 21 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.

La Carrera, Mendoza Argentina entrada a la Quebrada del Condor. Tunuyan - panoramio
nano4773 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Llegando a Quebrada del Condor, Mendoza Argentina - panoramio
nano4773 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Majestic Ojos del Salado volcano (4320230217)
sergejf · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Tupungato Volcano

Argentina

  • 84Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 21Peaks in view
  • 6,557 mAltitude

Aconcagua

Argentina · 82 km

  • 92Viewyas Score
  • 249 kmFarthest ridge
  • 17Peaks in view
  • 6,907 mAltitude

See the guide

Pablo Neruda Amphitheater

Chile · 78 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 144 kmFarthest ridge
  • 8Peaks in view
  • 786 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q756244) · 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, 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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