Elevation of Mollendo, Arequipa, Peru

Mollendo, Arequipa, Peru is 136 m (446 ft) above sea level.

Mollendo's height from sea level is 136 metres, or 446 feet. GeoNames reads 70 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 718 m

Mean 213 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 718 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 47

among the towns of Arequipa, and 766th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the W, at 100 m, 36 m lower.

Cross-section through Mollendo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mollendo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,294-96WE28.1 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 584 m at 14 km east.
1,294-96NS28.1 km
North to south: from 1,198 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Mollendo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Mollendo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Islay 8.7 kmW 100 m (328 ft) −36 m
Cocachacra 28.2 kmE 66 m (217 ft) −70 m
Punta de Bombón 29.7 kmSE 32 m (105 ft) −104 m

Where Mollendo is

Latitude -17.0166667, longitude -72.0166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mollendo elevation: 136 m (446 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 Mollendo'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 70 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.