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

31 m – 323 m

Mean 80 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 292 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 10

among the towns of Rivas, and 138th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

18.8 km to the SW, at 233 m, 196 m higher.

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.

4251WE28.5 km
West to east: from 108 m at 14 km west to 31 m at 14 km east.
4251NS28.5 km
North to south: from 31 m at 14 km north to 278 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Cárdenas, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Cárdenas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Cruz (Costa Rica) 18.8 kmSW 233 m (764 ft) +196 m
Dos Ríos (Costa Rica) 36.4 kmSE 541 m (1,775 ft) +504 m
San Juan del Sur 39.6 kmW 15 m (49 ft) −22 m

Peaks and passes near Cárdenas

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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Cárdenas elevation: 37 m (121 ft) above sea level

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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.