Elevation of Gatún, Colón, Panama

Gatún, Colón, Panama is 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Gatún's height from sea level is 50 metres, or 164 feet. GeoNames reads 48 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Río Gatún.

Ground within 5 km

30 m – 262 m

Mean 93 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 232 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 22

among the towns of Colón, and 139th of 260 in Panama.

Nearest town

Río Rita

3.2 km to the W, at 110 m, 60 m higher.

Cross-section through Gatún

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 Gatún; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 40 m at 14 km west to 139 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 24 m at 14 km north to 115 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gatún, 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 Gatún

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Río Rita	3.2 km	W	110 m (361 ft)	+60 m
Santa Rita Arriba	4.3 km	NW	152 m (499 ft)	+102 m
Sabanitas	6.9 km	NW	23 m (75 ft)	−27 m
Puerto Pilón	7.9 km	N	42 m (138 ft)	−8 m
Quebrada Bonita Adentro	8 km	E	165 m (541 ft)	+115 m

Peaks and passes near Gatún

Cerro Santo Domingo, peak at 792 m (2,598 ft), 21.2 km to the NE — 742 m above the town.
Cerro Cisneros, peak at 425 m (1,394 ft), 19.4 km to the E — 375 m above the town.
Cerro Santa Cruz, hill at 346 m (1,135 ft), 18.2 km to the E — 296 m above the town.

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

Where Gatún is

Latitude 9.2907613, longitude -79.7722291. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Gatún'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 48 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.