Elevation of Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Matagalpa, Nicaragua is 696 m (2,283 ft) above sea level.

Matagalpa's height from sea level is 696 metres, or 2,283 feet. GeoNames reads 689 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 680 m.

Ground within 5 km

634 m – 1,332 m

Mean 883 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 698 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 13

among the towns of Matagalpa, and 20th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

8.4 km to the E, at 650 m, 46 m lower.

Cross-section through Matagalpa

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 Matagalpa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,528545WE28.4 km
West to east: from 751 m at 14 km west to 1,052 m at 14 km east.
1,528545NS28.4 km
North to south: from 1,420 m at 14 km north to 722 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Matagalpa, 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 Matagalpa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Ramón 8.4 kmE 650 m (2,133 ft) −46 m
San Dionisio 19.2 kmS 411 m (1,348 ft) −285 m
Jinotega (Jinotega) 21 kmNW 1,019 m (3,343 ft) +323 m
Sébaco 21.3 kmW 475 m (1,558 ft) −221 m
Terrabona 21.5 kmS 582 m (1,909 ft) −114 m

Peaks and passes near Matagalpa

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

Where Matagalpa is

Latitude 12.92081, longitude -85.9173579. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Matagalpa elevation: 696 m (2,283 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 Matagalpa'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 689 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.