Elevation of Pucará, Cajamarca, Peru

Pucará, Cajamarca, Peru is 1,430 m (4,692 ft) above sea level.

Pucará's height from sea level is 1,430 metres, or 4,692 feet. GeoNames reads 1,250 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Pucara.

Ground within 5 km

1,243 m – 3,241 m

Mean 2,026 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,998 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 48

among the towns of Cajamarca, and 554th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

Sitacocha

13.5 km to the W, at 3,214 m, 1,784 m higher.

Cross-section through Pucará

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pucará; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 3,214 m at 14 km west to 1,163 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,729 m at 14 km north to 1,985 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pucará, 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 Pucará

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sitacocha	13.5 km	W	3,214 m (10,545 ft)	+1,784 m
Bambamarca (La Libertad)	20.1 km	NE	3,576 m (11,732 ft)	+2,146 m
Bolivar (La Libertad)	23.8 km	N	2,665 m (8,743 ft)	+1,235 m
Cajabamba	23.8 km	SW	2,757 m (9,045 ft)	+1,327 m
Chugay (La Libertad)	28.7 km	S	3,352 m (10,997 ft)	+1,922 m

Peaks and passes near Pucará

Cerro Llachilbaque, peak at 4,270 m (14,009 ft), 22 km to the SW — 2,840 m above the town.
Cerro Escalera, peak at 4,138 m (13,576 ft), 17.2 km to the SW — 2,708 m above the town.
Cerro Chachacomas, peak at 3,821 m (12,536 ft), 12.3 km to the SE — 2,391 m above the town.

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

Where Pucará is

Latitude -7.52, longitude -77.85. 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 Pucará'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 1,250 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.