Elevation of El Viejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua

El Viejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

El Viejo's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 49 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 47 m.

Ground within 5 km

19 m – 101 m

Mean 50 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 82 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 13

among the towns of Chinandega, and 130th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the SE, at 65 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through El Viejo

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 Viejo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

301-14WE28.4 km
West to east: from 9 m at 14 km west to 279 m at 14 km east.
301-14NS28.4 km
North to south: from 13 m at 14 km north to 8 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around El Viejo, 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 Viejo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chinandega 5.8 kmSE 65 m (213 ft) +17 m
El Realejo 13.1 kmS 9 m (30 ft) −39 m
Corinto 17.9 kmS 3 m (10 ft) −45 m
Chichigalpa 18.2 kmSE 79 m (259 ft) +31 m
Puerto Morazán 20.6 kmN 6 m (20 ft) −42 m

Peaks and passes near El Viejo

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

Where El Viejo is

Latitude 12.661655, longitude -87.166991. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

El Viejo elevation: 48 m (157 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

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 Viejo'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 49 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.