Elevation of Chichigalpa, Chinandega, Nicaragua

Chichigalpa, Chinandega, Nicaragua is 79 m (259 ft) above sea level.

Chichigalpa's height from sea level is 79 metres, or 259 feet. GeoNames reads 76 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 89 m.

Ground within 5 km

27 m – 199 m

Mean 86 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 172 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 13

among the towns of Chinandega, and 111th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

6 km to the SE, at 75 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Chichigalpa

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 Chichigalpa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

748-32WE28.4 km
West to east: from 23 m at 14 km west to 187 m at 14 km east.
748-32NS28.4 km
North to south: from 694 m at 14 km north to 22 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Chichigalpa, 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 Chichigalpa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Posoltega 6 kmSE 75 m (246 ft) −4 m
Chinandega 12.6 kmNW 65 m (213 ft) −14 m
El Realejo 15.3 kmW 9 m (30 ft) −70 m
Quezalguaque (León) 15.4 kmSE 93 m (305 ft) +14 m
Corinto 18.1 kmSW 3 m (10 ft) −76 m

Peaks and passes near Chichigalpa

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Chichigalpa is

Latitude 12.56957, longitude -87.028634. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chichigalpa elevation: 79 m (259 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 Chichigalpa'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 76 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.