Elevation of Papayal, Tumbes, Peru

Papayal, Tumbes, Peru is 260 m (853 ft) above sea level.

Papayal's height from sea level is 260 metres, or 853 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

197 m – 954 m

Mean 313 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 757 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 7

among the towns of Tumbes, and 698th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

24.8 km to the SE, at 856 m, 596 m higher.

Cross-section through Papayal

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 Papayal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

903110WE28.7 km
West to east: from 179 m at 14 km west to 796 m at 14 km east.
903110NS28.7 km
North to south: from 230 m at 14 km north to 837 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Papayal, 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 Papayal

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Matanza (Piura) 24.8 kmSE 856 m (2,808 ft) +596 m
La Brea (Piura) 27.5 kmSW 224 m (735 ft) −36 m
Máncora (Piura) 35.6 kmW 2 m (7 ft) −258 m

Where Papayal is

Latitude -4.07, longitude -80.73. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Papayal elevation: 260 m (853 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 Papayal'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 262 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.