Elevation of Madre de Dios, Peru

Madre de Dios, Peru is 229 m (751 ft) above sea level.

Madre de Dios's height from sea level is 229 metres, or 751 feet. GeoNames reads 218 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

228 m – 291 m

Mean 241 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 63 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 7

among the towns of Madre de Dios, and 708th of 929 in Peru.

Cross-section through Madre de Dios

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Madre de Dios; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 235 m at 14 km west to 275 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 262 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Madre de Dios, 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.

Peaks and passes near Madre de Dios

Cerro Colorado, peak at 268 m (879 ft), 3.5 km to the W — 39 m above the town.

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

Where Madre de Dios is

Latitude -12.5986, longitude -70.090584. 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 Madre de Dios'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 218 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.