Elevation of El Cuá, Jinotega, Nicaragua

El Cuá, Jinotega, Nicaragua is 518 m (1,699 ft) above sea level.

El Cuá's height from sea level is 518 metres, or 1,699 feet. GeoNames reads 508 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

364 m – 783 m

Mean 545 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 419 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Jinotega, and 44th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

22.3 km to the N, at 340 m, 178 m lower.

Cross-section through El Cuá

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 El Cuá; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,109309WE28.4 km
West to east: from 532 m at 14 km west to 479 m at 14 km east.
1,109309NS28.4 km
North to south: from 1,053 m at 14 km north to 751 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around El Cuá, 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 El Cuá

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Wiwilí 22.3 kmN 340 m (1,115 ft) −178 m
Wiwili de Abajo (Nueva Segovia) 24.5 kmN 366 m (1,201 ft) −152 m
Rancho Grande (Matagalpa) 26 kmSE 599 m (1,965 ft) +81 m
Santa María de Pantasma 26.2 kmS 1,013 m (3,323 ft) +495 m
San José de Bocay 26.6 kmNE 456 m (1,496 ft) −62 m

Where El Cuá is

Latitude 13.42, longitude -85.75. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Cuá elevation: 518 m (1,699 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 El Cuá'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 508 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.