Elevation of Paras, Ayacucho, Peru

Paras, Ayacucho, Peru is 3,574 m (11,726 ft) above sea level.

Paras's height from sea level is 3,574 metres, or 11,726 feet. GeoNames reads 3,328 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3,354 m.

Ground within 5 km

3,168 m – 4,598 m

Mean 3,758 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,430 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 54

among the towns of Ayacucho, and 179th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

1.1 km to the S, at 3,379 m, 195 m lower.

Cross-section through Paras

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paras; the vertical scale is the same on both.

5,0043,115WE28.4 km
West to east: from 3,797 m at 14 km west to 4,194 m at 14 km east.
5,0043,115NS28.4 km
North to south: from 4,861 m at 14 km north to 4,257 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Paras, 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 Paras

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Santa Rosa 1.1 kmS 3,379 m (11,086 ft) −195 m
Totos 12.1 kmE 3,276 m (10,748 ft) −298 m
Vilcanchos 12.7 kmSE 3,036 m (9,961 ft) −538 m
Chuschi 29.5 kmE 3,415 m (11,204 ft) −159 m
Sarhua 36.2 kmE 3,216 m (10,551 ft) −358 m

Peaks and passes near Paras

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

Where Paras is

Latitude -13.55, longitude -74.63. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paras elevation: 3,574 m (11,726 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 Paras'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 3,328 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.