Elevation of Colón, Panama

Colón, Panama is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Colón's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 2 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Also written: Aspinwall.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 60 m

Mean 9 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 60 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 22

among the towns of Colón, and 250th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

Margarita

3 km to the S, at 14 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Colón

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 Colón; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 117 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 35 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Colón, 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 Colón

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Margarita	3 km	S	14 m (46 ft)	+10 m
Cativá	6.6 km	E	15 m (49 ft)	+11 m
Sabanitas	10.5 km	E	23 m (75 ft)	+19 m
Puerto Pilón	12.1 km	E	42 m (138 ft)	+38 m
Río Alejandro	12.3 km	E	30 m (98 ft)	+26 m

Peaks and passes near Colón

Cerro Quijano, hill at 251 m (823 ft), 21.1 km to the E — 247 m above the town.

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

Where Colón is

Latitude 9.358577, longitude -79.900015. 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 Colón'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 2 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.