Elevation of Cotija de la Paz, Michoacán, Mexico

Cotija de la Paz, Michoacán, Mexico is 1,677 m (5,502 ft) above sea level.

Cotija de la Paz's height from sea level is 1,677 metres, or 5,502 feet. GeoNames reads 1,642 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Cotija.

Ground within 5 km

1,603 m – 2,423 m

Mean 1,808 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 820 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 51

among the towns of Michoacán, and 405th of 995 in Mexico.

Nearest town

Jiquilpan de Juárez

20.5 km to the N, at 1,565 m, 112 m lower.

Cross-section through Cotija de la Paz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cotija de la Paz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,065 m at 14 km west to 1,641 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,164 m at 14 km north to 1,968 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Cotija de la Paz, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Cotija de la Paz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Jiquilpan de Juárez	20.5 km	N	1,565 m (5,135 ft)	−112 m
Sahuayo de Morelos	28 km	N	1,533 m (5,030 ft)	−144 m
Santiago Tangamandapio	32.5 km	NE	1,694 m (5,558 ft)	+17 m
Venustiano Carranza	34.6 km	N	1,530 m (5,020 ft)	−147 m
Pajacuarán	37.5 km	N	1,530 m (5,020 ft)	−147 m

Where Cotija de la Paz is

Latitude 19.8071529, longitude -102.7017979. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cotija de la Paz's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 1,642 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.