Pedra da Gávea
- Easiest route
- 2.4 km+635 m · about 1.5 h · T3
- Prominence
- 477 m1,566 ft
- Isolation
- 4.1 km
- Tonight
- 16°CFair · Wind 9 km/h N
Pedra da Gávea is an 842 m (2,762 ft) mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
All facts
- Elevation
- 842 m · 2,762 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Dedo de Deus (1,692 m)
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Coordinates
- 22.9988° S, 43.2843° W
How to get to the top of Pedra da Gávea
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.1 km NW of Pedra da Gávea
- Distance
- 2.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +635 m−5 m (2,083 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Pedra da Gávea 3D map
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Pedra da Gávea 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
Pedra da Gávea weather
Tonight · Fair · 16°C (61°F) · Wind 9 km/h N
Pedra da Gávea forecast for the summit, about 842 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 85 m.
- Tonight16°–9 km/h NBase 21°
- Sat16°25°–30 km/h NWBase 21 / 30°
- Sun17°23°24.8 mm36 km/h WBase 22 / 28°
- Mon15°17°6.7 mm40 km/h SWBase 20 / 22°
- Tue15°18°–15 km/h EBase 20 / 22°
- Wed16°19°–25 km/h EBase 21 / 24°
- Thu15°19°38.0 mm27 km/h EBase 20 / 24°
- Fri15°17°30.0 mm25 km/h EBase 20 / 22°
- Sat16°18°0.5 mm28 km/h EBase 21 / 23°
- Sun16°19°1.6 mm32 km/h EBase 21 / 24°
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 Pedra da Gávea
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pedra da Gávea, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km SSE
Nearest campsite
Descampado com bancos de troncos
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km SSE |
| Parking | 0.9 km S |
| Parking | 1.0 km S |
| Descampado com bancos de troncosCampsite | 1.0 km NW |
How steep is the route to Pedra da Gávea?
The easiest mapped route, 2.4 km from 162 m to 842 m. Steepest stretch: 39°.
- 0–15°1.3 km
- 15–30°1.1 km
- 30–45°0.1 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 Pedra da Gávea summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Morro da Bandeira601 m 0.5 km N
- 2Pico dos Quatro678 m 0.5 km SSW
- 3Pedra Bonita693 m 1.1 km N
- 4Pedra do Agassiz551 m 1.1 km NNW
- 5Dois Picos575 m 1.4 km NNE
- 6Aguilhinha da Gávea610 m 1.6 km NNE
- 7Morro do Chapecó554 m 1.9 km N
- 8Morro do Cochrane718 m 2.6 km NE
Where Pedra da Gávea sits
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro4Brazil20South America235
Nearby places
Pedra da Gávea downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
47 m low This 3D map reads 795 m at the summit; the official height is 842 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 60 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 842 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 795 m | -47 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 782 m | -60 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)
- 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