Elevation of Rivas, Nicaragua

Rivas, Nicaragua is 66 m (217 ft) above sea level.

Rivas's height from sea level is 66 metres, or 217 feet. GeoNames reads 69 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 63 m.

Ground within 5 km

31 m – 158 m

Mean 72 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 127 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 10

among the towns of Rivas, and 117th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the NE, at 49 m, 17 m lower.

Cross-section through Rivas

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rivas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

19518WE28.5 km
West to east: from 111 m at 14 km west to 31 m at 14 km east.
19518NS28.5 km
North to south: from 32 m at 14 km north to 69 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Rivas, 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 Rivas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Jorge 4.1 kmNE 49 m (161 ft) −17 m
Buenos Aires 4.1 kmNE 51 m (167 ft) −15 m
Potosí 7.1 kmN 60 m (197 ft) −6 m
Belén 9.2 kmNW 67 m (220 ft) +1 m
Tola 11.3 kmW 45 m (148 ft) −21 m

Peaks and passes near Rivas

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

Where Rivas is

Latitude 11.4333333, longitude -85.8333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rivas elevation: 66 m (217 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 Rivas'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 69 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.