Elevation of Pomahuaca, Cajamarca, Peru

Pomahuaca, Cajamarca, Peru is 1,203 m (3,947 ft) above sea level.

Pomahuaca's height from sea level is 1,203 metres, or 3,947 feet. GeoNames reads 1,277 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,097 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,009 m – 2,545 m

Mean 1,553 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,536 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 48

among the towns of Cajamarca, and 564th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

Huarango

13.9 km to the SE, at 1,420 m, 217 m higher.

Cross-section through Pomahuaca

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 Pomahuaca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,727 m at 14 km west to 2,485 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,301 m at 14 km north to 2,083 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pomahuaca, 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 Pomahuaca

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Huarango	13.9 km	SE	1,420 m (4,659 ft)	+217 m
Colasay	17.6 km	E	1,813 m (5,948 ft)	+610 m
Chontali	35.5 km	NE	1,617 m (5,305 ft)	+414 m
Incahuasi (Lambayeque)	35.6 km	S	2,910 m (9,547 ft)	+1,707 m

Peaks and passes near Pomahuaca

Cerro El Vuelo de La Piedra, peak at 3,475 m (11,401 ft), 13.5 km to the NE — 2,272 m above the town.
Cerro Huandoaca, peak at 3,245 m (10,646 ft), 16.8 km to the S — 2,042 m above the town.
Cerro Silaca, peak at 3,189 m (10,463 ft), 15 km to the E — 1,986 m above the town.

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

Where Pomahuaca is

Latitude -5.9345929, longitude -79.222328. 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 Pomahuaca'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 1,277 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.