Elevation of Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru

Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru is 712 m (2,336 ft) above sea level.

Jaén's height from sea level is 712 metres, or 2,336 feet. GeoNames reads 730 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 729 m.

Also written: Jaen.

Ground within 5 km

612 m – 1,446 m

Mean 910 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 834 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

46th of 48

among the towns of Cajamarca, and 612th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

Bellavista

12.8 km to the E, at 510 m, 202 m lower.

Cross-section through Jaén

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jaén; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,153 m at 14 km west to 452 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 744 m at 14 km north to 1,058 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jaén, 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 Jaén

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bellavista	12.8 km	E	510 m (1,673 ft)	−202 m
San Miguel	18.6 km	NW	1,202 m (3,944 ft)	+490 m
El Milagro (Amazonas)	27.1 km	E	413 m (1,355 ft)	−299 m
Cumba (Amazonas)	29.5 km	SE	521 m (1,709 ft)	−191 m
La Coipa	32 km	N	841 m (2,759 ft)	+129 m

Peaks and passes near Jaén

Cerro Chunchuga, peak at 2,919 m (9,577 ft), 20.8 km to the SW — 2,207 m above the town.
Cerro Chorrera, peak at 2,757 m (9,045 ft), 21 km to the W — 2,045 m above the town.
Cerro Cruzpa Huesi, peak at 2,308 m (7,572 ft), 13.9 km to the W — 1,596 m above the town.

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

Where Jaén is

Latitude -5.710183, longitude -78.795563. 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 Jaén'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 730 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.