Elevation of Belén, Rivas, Nicaragua

Belén, Rivas, Nicaragua is 67 m (220 ft) above sea level.

Belén's height from sea level is 67 metres, or 220 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 69 m.

Ground within 5 km

36 m – 196 m

Mean 82 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 160 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 10

among the towns of Rivas, and 115th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

2.9 km to the E, at 60 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Belén

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 Belén; the vertical scale is the same on both.

26014WE28.5 km
West to east: from 193 m at 14 km west to 31 m at 14 km east.
26014NS28.5 km
North to south: from 37 m at 14 km north to 72 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Belén, 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 Belén

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Potosí 2.9 kmE 60 m (197 ft) −7 m
Buenos Aires 8.2 kmSE 51 m (167 ft) −16 m
Tola 9 kmSW 45 m (148 ft) −22 m
Rivas 9.2 kmSE 66 m (217 ft) −1 m
San Jorge 10.6 kmSE 49 m (161 ft) −18 m

Peaks and passes near Belén

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

Where Belén is

Latitude 11.5, longitude -85.8833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Belén elevation: 67 m (220 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 Belén'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 84 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.