Elevation of La Palma, Darién, Panama

La Palma, Darién, Panama is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

La Palma's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 4 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Chepigana.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 172 m

Mean 15 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 172 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 7

among the towns of Darién, and 193rd of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

22.2 km to the NE, at 49 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through La Palma

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 Palma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

273-21WE28.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 16 m at 14 km east.
273-21NS28.6 km
North to south: from 67 m at 14 km north to 117 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Palma, 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 Palma

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Metetí 22.2 kmNE 49 m (161 ft) +25 m
Santa Fé 26.4 kmN 23 m (75 ft) −1 m

Peaks and passes near La Palma

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

Where La Palma is

Latitude 8.41, longitude -78.15. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Palma elevation: 24 m (79 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 La Palma'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 4 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.