Elevation of Zimatlán de Álvarez, Oaxaca, Mexico

Zimatlán de Álvarez, Oaxaca, Mexico is 1,500 m (4,921 ft) above sea level.

Zimatlán de Álvarez's height from sea level is 1,500 metres, or 4,921 feet. GeoNames reads 1,509 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Zimatlán.

Ground within 5 km

1,477 m – 1,832 m

Mean 1,537 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 355 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 41

among the towns of Oaxaca, and 491st of 995 in Mexico.

Nearest town

Villa de Zaachila

9.7 km to the N, at 1,517 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Zimatlán de Álvarez

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Zimatlán de Álvarez; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,172 m at 14 km west to 1,693 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,577 m at 14 km north to 1,517 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Zimatlán de Álvarez, 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 Zimatlán de Álvarez

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Villa de Zaachila	9.7 km	N	1,517 m (4,977 ft)	+17 m
Vicente Guerrero	11.3 km	NE	1,576 m (5,171 ft)	+76 m
Cuilápam de Guerrero	14.4 km	N	1,577 m (5,174 ft)	+77 m
Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán	18.5 km	N	1,537 m (5,043 ft)	+37 m
San Antonio de la Cal	19.7 km	NE	1,542 m (5,059 ft)	+42 m

Where Zimatlán de Álvarez is

Latitude 16.8666667, longitude -96.7833333. 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 Zimatlán de Álvarez'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 1,509 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.