Elevation of La Palma, Los Santos, Panama

La Palma, Los Santos, Panama is 172 m (564 ft) above sea level.

La Palma's height from sea level is 172 metres, or 564 feet. GeoNames reads 190 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

62 m – 337 m

Mean 183 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 275 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 17

among the towns of Los Santos, and 49th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

10.9 km to the E, at 73 m, 99 m lower.

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.

4045WE28.6 km
West to east: from 147 m at 14 km west to 57 m at 14 km east.
4045NS28.6 km
North to south: from 47 m at 14 km north to 259 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
La Tiza 10.9 kmE 73 m (240 ft) −99 m
Agua Buena 11.3 kmN 75 m (246 ft) −97 m
Las Tablas 12.1 kmNE 41 m (135 ft) −131 m
Santo Domingo 14.7 kmE 49 m (161 ft) −123 m
Guararé 15.4 kmNE 32 m (105 ft) −140 m

Where La Palma is

Latitude 7.72, longitude -80.38. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Palma elevation: 172 m (564 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 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 190 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.