Elevation of Portobelo, Colón, Panama

Portobelo, Colón, Panama is 30 m (98 ft) above sea level.

Portobelo's height from sea level is 30 metres, or 98 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 352 m

Mean 82 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 352 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 22

among the towns of Colón, and 180th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

María Chiquita

16.6 km to the SW, at 17 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Portobelo

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 Portobelo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 101 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 556 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Portobelo, 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 Portobelo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
María Chiquita	16.6 km	SW	17 m (56 ft)	−13 m
Salamanca	24.8 km	S	93 m (305 ft)	+63 m
Río Alejandro	24.8 km	SW	30 m (98 ft)	same
Puerto Pilón	26.1 km	SW	42 m (138 ft)	+12 m
Quebrada Bonita Adentro	28.3 km	S	165 m (541 ft)	+135 m

Peaks and passes near Portobelo

Cerro Bruja, peak at 979 m (3,212 ft), 12.3 km to the SE — 949 m above the town.
Cerro Santo Domingo, peak at 792 m (2,598 ft), 11.2 km to the S — 762 m above the town.
Cerro Pan de Azúcar, peak at 419 m (1,375 ft), 5.9 km to the S — 389 m above the town.

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

Where Portobelo is

Latitude 9.55, longitude -79.65. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Portobelo'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 11 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.