Elevation of Changuinola, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Changuinola, Bocas del Toro, Panama is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Changuinola's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 142 m

Mean 16 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 140 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 10

among the towns of Bocas del Toro, and 236th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the SW, at 50 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Changuinola

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 Changuinola; the vertical scale is the same on both.

297-22WE28.6 km
West to east: from 16 m at 14 km west to 1 m at 14 km east.
297-22NS28.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 124 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Changuinola, 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 Changuinola

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Silencio 4.7 kmSW 50 m (164 ft) +39 m
Bocas del Toro 10.9 kmSW 223 m (732 ft) +212 m
Guabito 12.1 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −2 m
Sixaola (Costa Rica) 13.6 kmNW 7 m (23 ft) −4 m
Finca Cincuenta y Uno 19.5 kmW 277 m (909 ft) +266 m

Where Changuinola is

Latitude 9.43, longitude -82.52. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Changuinola elevation: 11 m (36 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 Changuinola'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 12 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.