Elevation of La Mesa, Panamá, Panama

La Mesa, Panamá, Panama is 98 m (322 ft) above sea level.

La Mesa's height from sea level is 98 metres, or 322 feet. GeoNames reads 108 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

30 m – 759 m

Mean 137 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 729 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 60

among the towns of Panamá, and 86th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

5.2 km to the SW, at 47 m, 51 m lower.

Cross-section through La Mesa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Mesa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

702-47WE28.6 km
West to east: from 426 m at 14 km west to 19 m at 14 km east.
702-47NS28.6 km
North to south: from 650 m at 14 km north to 5 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Mesa, 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 La Mesa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Los Lotes 5.2 kmSW 47 m (154 ft) −51 m
Paso Blanco 6.4 kmSE 38 m (125 ft) −60 m
Cabra 8.9 kmSW 32 m (105 ft) −66 m
Pacora 9.8 kmS 12 m (39 ft) −86 m
Tocumen 15.3 kmSW 28 m (92 ft) −70 m

Where La Mesa is

Latitude 9.1682566, longitude -79.273304. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Mesa elevation: 98 m (322 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 La Mesa'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 108 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.