Elevation of Río Blanco, Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Río Blanco, Matagalpa, Nicaragua is 279 m (915 ft) above sea level.

Río Blanco's height from sea level is 279 metres, or 915 feet. GeoNames reads 265 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 275 m.

Ground within 5 km

203 m – 1,045 m

Mean 389 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 842 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 13

among the towns of Matagalpa, and 78th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

Bocana de Paiwas

17.6 km to the SE, at 215 m, 64 m lower.

Cross-section through Río Blanco

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 Río Blanco; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 403 m at 14 km west to 180 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 222 m at 14 km north to 203 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Río Blanco, 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 Río Blanco

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bocana de Paiwas (Atlántico Sur)	17.6 km	SE	215 m (705 ft)	−64 m
Matiguás	28 km	W	298 m (978 ft)	+19 m
Mulukukú (Atlántico Norte)	37.3 km	NE	90 m (295 ft)	−189 m
Waslala (Atlántico Norte)	37.7 km	NW	308 m (1,010 ft)	+29 m

Where Río Blanco is

Latitude 12.93157, longitude -85.224113. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Río Blanco'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 265 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.