Elevation of Palcamayo, Junín, Peru

Palcamayo, Junín, Peru is 3,375 m (11,073 ft) above sea level.

Palcamayo's height from sea level is 3,375 metres, or 11,073 feet. GeoNames reads 3,338 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3,338 m.

Ground within 5 km

3,344 m – 4,289 m

Mean 3,888 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 945 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 79

among the towns of Junín, and 248th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

11.1 km to the NW, at 4,021 m, 646 m higher.

Cross-section through Palcamayo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Palcamayo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

4,5133,290WE28.5 km
West to east: from 4,325 m at 14 km west to 4,002 m at 14 km east.
4,5133,290NS28.5 km
North to south: from 4,184 m at 14 km north to 3,729 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Palcamayo, 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 Palcamayo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Pedro de Cajas 11.1 kmNW 4,021 m (13,192 ft) +646 m
Acobamba 13.8 kmSE 2,997 m (9,833 ft) −378 m
Huasahuasi 13.9 kmE 2,869 m (9,413 ft) −506 m
Tarma 16.3 kmSE 3,096 m (10,157 ft) −279 m
Palca 20.3 kmE 2,884 m (9,462 ft) −491 m

Peaks and passes near Palcamayo

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

Where Palcamayo is

Latitude -11.2957096, longitude -75.7727595. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Palcamayo elevation: 3,375 m (11,073 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 Palcamayo'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 3,338 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.