Corcovado
- Mapped trail
- 2.4 km+140 m · about 1 h · T1Ends 390 m below the summit.
- Isolation
- 0.5 km
- Tonight
- 17°CPartly cloudy · Wind 8 km/h N
Corcovado is a 710 m (2,329 ft) mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
All facts
- Elevation
- 710 m · 2,329 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Pedra da Gávea (842 m)
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Spanish name
- Cerro del Corcovado
- Coordinates
- 22.9482° S, 43.2243° W
Trails toward Corcovado
Mapped trails from the road get to 390 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.7 km SSW of Corcovado
- Distance
- 2.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +140 m−408 m (459 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
Ends 390 m below the summit.
Other routes 1
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Corcovado 3D map
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Corcovado terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Corcovado weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 17°C (63°F) · Wind 8 km/h N
Corcovado forecast for the summit, about 710 m.
- Tonight17°–8 km/h N
- Sat17°26°–26 km/h NW
- Sun18°24°21.6 mm25 km/h W
- Mon15°18°6.7 mm32 km/h SW
- Tue16°19°–14 km/h S
- Wed17°20°–15 km/h E
- Thu16°19°34.4 mm14 km/h E
- Fri16°18°25.3 mm17 km/h E
- Sat16°19°1.0 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun17°21°1.0 mm20 km/h SE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Corcovado
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Corcovado, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.7 km ENE
Nearest trailhead
3.4 km SE
Nearest campsite
AP do Rio de Janeiro
How steep is the route to Corcovado?
The easiest mapped route, 2.4 km from 540 m to 272 m. Steepest stretch: 40°.
- 0–15°1.5 km
- 15–30°0.7 km
- 30–45°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Corcovado summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Pedra do Cão518 m 0.7 km S
- 2Sumaré Hill753 m 0.7 km WSW
- 3Pedra do Bispo625 m 0.8 km NNE
- 4Alto das Paineiras532 m 0.8 km E
- 5Morro do Andaime Pequeno699 m 1.0 km WSW
- 6Morro do Sumaré556 m 1.2 km N
- 7Morro Sete Quedas552 m 1.4 km SW
- 8Pico da Carioca786 m 1.4 km WSW
- 9Pico da Carioca Mirim648 m 1.8 km W
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 1,526 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Rusty-margined Guan262
- Masked Water-Tyrant247
- Green-headed Tanager233
- Amazon Lava Lizard231
- Great Kiskadee222
- Striated Heron211
Where Corcovado sits
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro4Brazil20South America235
Nearby places
Corcovado downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
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How accurate is this?
51 m low This 3D map reads 659 m at the summit; the official height is 710 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 89 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 710 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 659 m | -51 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 621 m | -89 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-21)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia