Elevation of Bocana de Paiwas, Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua

Bocana de Paiwas, Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua is 215 m (705 ft) above sea level.

Bocana de Paiwas's height from sea level is 215 metres, or 705 feet. GeoNames reads 146 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 146 m.

Also written: Paiwas.

Ground within 5 km

151 m – 326 m

Mean 210 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 175 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 12

among the towns of Atlántico Sur, and 82nd of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

17.6 km to the NW, at 279 m, 64 m higher.

Cross-section through Bocana de Paiwas

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 Bocana de Paiwas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

404115WE28.4 km
West to east: from 319 m at 14 km west to 135 m at 14 km east.
404115NS28.4 km
North to south: from 210 m at 14 km north to 384 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bocana de Paiwas, 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 Bocana de Paiwas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Río Blanco (Matagalpa) 17.6 kmNW 279 m (915 ft) +64 m
Matiguás (Matagalpa) 35.9 kmW 298 m (978 ft) +83 m

Where Bocana de Paiwas is

Latitude 12.8, longitude -85.1333329. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bocana de Paiwas elevation: 215 m (705 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 Bocana de Paiwas'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 146 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.