Elevation of Cárdenas, Rivas, Nicaragua
Cárdenas, Rivas, Nicaragua is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.
Cárdenas's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 35 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 35 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 80 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 292 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Cárdenas
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cárdenas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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 Cárdenas
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Cruz (Costa Rica) | 18.8 km | SW | 233 m (764 ft) | +196 m |
| Dos Ríos (Costa Rica) | 36.4 km | SE | 541 m (1,775 ft) | +504 m |
| San Juan del Sur | 39.6 km | W | 15 m (49 ft) | −22 m |
Peaks and passes near Cárdenas
- Volcán Orosí, volcano at 1,659 m (5,443 ft), 24.5 km to the S — 1,622 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Cárdenas is
Latitude 11.1975463, longitude -85.5110104. 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 Cárdenas'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 35 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.