Elevation of Terrabona, Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Terrabona, Matagalpa, Nicaragua is 582 m (1,909 ft) above sea level.

Terrabona's height from sea level is 582 metres, or 1,909 feet. GeoNames reads 538 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 538 m.

Ground within 5 km

482 m – 1,142 m

Mean 715 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 660 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 13

among the towns of Matagalpa, and 33rd of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

13 km to the E, at 411 m, 171 m lower.

Cross-section through Terrabona

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 Terrabona; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,018359WE28.4 km
West to east: from 469 m at 14 km west to 533 m at 14 km east.
1,018359NS28.4 km
North to south: from 835 m at 14 km north to 459 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Terrabona, 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 Terrabona

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Dionisio 13 kmE 411 m (1,348 ft) −171 m
Ciudad Darío 17.1 kmW 453 m (1,486 ft) −129 m
Sébaco 19.4 kmNW 475 m (1,558 ft) −107 m
Esquipulas 20.8 kmE 549 m (1,801 ft) −33 m
Matagalpa 21.5 kmN 696 m (2,283 ft) +114 m

Peaks and passes near Terrabona

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

Where Terrabona is

Latitude 12.7333333, longitude -85.9666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Terrabona elevation: 582 m (1,909 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 Terrabona'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 538 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.