Elevation of Marcavélica, Piura, Peru

Marcavélica, Piura, Peru is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Marcavélica's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 62 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 55 m.

Ground within 5 km

31 m – 104 m

Mean 54 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 73 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 47

among the towns of Piura, and 841st of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the E, at 49 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Marcavélica

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 Marcavélica; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11825WE28.7 km
West to east: from 32 m at 14 km west to 111 m at 14 km east.
11825NS28.7 km
North to south: from 108 m at 14 km north to 85 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Marcavélica, 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 Marcavélica

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Salitral 3.3 kmE 49 m (161 ft) −3 m
Sullana 4.8 kmSE 60 m (197 ft) +8 m
Querecotillo 8 kmNE 54 m (177 ft) +2 m
Cristo Nos Valga 8.5 kmSE 85 m (279 ft) +33 m
Chalaco 8.5 kmSW 31 m (102 ft) −21 m

Where Marcavélica is

Latitude -4.8681574, longitude -80.7131255. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Marcavélica elevation: 52 m (171 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 Marcavélica'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 62 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.