Elevation of San Carlos, Río San Juan, Nicaragua

San Carlos, Río San Juan, Nicaragua is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

San Carlos's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 51 m.

Ground within 5 km

31 m – 107 m

Mean 41 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 76 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 6

among the towns of Río San Juan, and 136th of 153 in Nicaragua.

Nearest town

13 km to the SE, at 38 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through San Carlos

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 San Carlos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

7312WE28.5 km
West to east: from 31 m at 14 km west to 41 m at 14 km east.
7312NS28.5 km
North to south: from 35 m at 14 km north to 36 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Carlos, 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 San Carlos

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Los Chiles (Costa Rica) 13 kmSE 38 m (125 ft) same
San Miguelito 33 kmNW 54 m (177 ft) +16 m
El Castillo 34.2 kmE 53 m (174 ft) +15 m
Upala (Costa Rica) 37.4 kmSW 54 m (177 ft) +16 m

Where San Carlos is

Latitude 11.1320207, longitude -84.7746375. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Carlos elevation: 38 m (125 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 San Carlos'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 29 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.