Elevation of San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua
San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua is 562 m (1,844 ft) above sea level.
San Marcos's height from sea level is 562 metres, or 1,844 feet. GeoNames reads 554 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 530 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 567 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 363 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through San Marcos
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Marcos; 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 San Marcos
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Concepción (Masaya) | 3.7 km | NE | 507 m (1,663 ft) | −55 m |
| Dolores | 5.8 km | S | 585 m (1,919 ft) | +23 m |
| Masatepe | 6.4 km | E | 453 m (1,486 ft) | −109 m |
| Jinotepe | 6.6 km | S | 556 m (1,824 ft) | −6 m |
| Diriamba | 7.2 km | SW | 573 m (1,880 ft) | +11 m |
Peaks and passes near San Marcos
- Volcán Masaya, volcano at 635 m (2,083 ft), 9.9 km to the NE — 73 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where San Marcos is
Latitude 11.906513, longitude -86.2031426. 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 San Marcos'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 554 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.