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

372 m – 735 m

Mean 567 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 363 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 9

among the towns of Carazo, and 36th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the NE, at 507 m, 55 m lower.

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.

726240WE28.4 km
West to east: from 518 m at 14 km west to 481 m at 14 km east.
726240NS28.4 km
North to south: from 274 m at 14 km north to 326 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Marcos, 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 San Marcos

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Concepción (Masaya) 3.7 kmNE 507 m (1,663 ft) −55 m
Dolores 5.8 kmS 585 m (1,919 ft) +23 m
Masatepe 6.4 kmE 453 m (1,486 ft) −109 m
Jinotepe 6.6 kmS 556 m (1,824 ft) −6 m
Diriamba 7.2 kmSW 573 m (1,880 ft) +11 m

Peaks and passes near San Marcos

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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San Marcos elevation: 562 m (1,844 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 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.