Elevation of Nazca, Ica, Peru

Nazca, Ica, Peru is 584 m (1,916 ft) above sea level.

Nazca's height from sea level is 584 metres, or 1,916 feet. GeoNames reads 584 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 520 m.

Ground within 5 km

515 m – 1,082 m

Mean 708 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 567 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 28

among the towns of Ica, and 630th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

El Ingenio

24.8 km to the NW, at 489 m, 95 m lower.

Cross-section through Nazca

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Nazca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 416 m at 14 km west to 1,173 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,226 m at 14 km north to 550 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Nazca, 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 Nazca

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
El Ingenio	24.8 km	NW	489 m (1,604 ft)	−95 m
Changuillo	36.1 km	NW	259 m (850 ft)	−325 m

Peaks and passes near Nazca

Cerro Marcha, peak at 1,673 m (5,489 ft), 24 km to the SE — 1,089 m above the town.
Cerro Copara, peak at 1,013 m (3,323 ft), 22.4 km to the S — 429 m above the town.

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

Where Nazca is

Latitude -14.8391, longitude -74.940323. 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 Nazca'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 584 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.