Elevation of Paracas, Ica, Peru

Paracas, Ica, Peru is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Paracas's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. Wikidata records 0 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 227 m

Mean 30 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 227 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 28

among the towns of Ica, and 892nd of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

San Andrés

11.5 km to the N, at 8 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Paracas

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 Paracas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 86 m at 14 km west to 125 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 223 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Paracas, 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 Paracas

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Andrés	11.5 km	N	8 m (26 ft)	−8 m
Pisco	14.7 km	N	19 m (62 ft)	+3 m
Tupac Amaru Inca	17.2 km	NE	99 m (325 ft)	+83 m
San Clemente	19.7 km	NE	94 m (308 ft)	+78 m
Independencia	27.2 km	NE	172 m (564 ft)	+156 m

Where Paracas is

Latitude -13.8346549, longitude -76.2493603. 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 Paracas'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.