Elevation of Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru

Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru is 196 m (643 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Maldonado's height from sea level is 196 metres, or 643 feet. GeoNames reads 193 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 183 m.

Ground within 5 km

179 m – 229 m

Mean 198 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 7

among the towns of Madre de Dios, and 725th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

12.3 km to the N, at 220 m, 24 m higher.

Cross-section through Puerto Maldonado

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 Puerto Maldonado; the vertical scale is the same on both.

233172WE28.4 km
West to east: from 226 m at 14 km west to 195 m at 14 km east.
233172NS28.4 km
North to south: from 199 m at 14 km north to 203 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Maldonado, 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 Puerto Maldonado

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Las Piedras 12.3 kmN 220 m (722 ft) +24 m
Tambopata 14.1 kmS 211 m (692 ft) +15 m

Where Puerto Maldonado is

Latitude -12.60342, longitude -69.191887. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Puerto Maldonado elevation: 196 m (643 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 Puerto Maldonado'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 193 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.