Elevation of Puyca, Arequipa, Peru

Puyca, Arequipa, Peru is 3,531 m (11,585 ft) above sea level.

Puyca's height from sea level is 3,531 metres, or 11,585 feet. GeoNames reads 3,659 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3,675 m.

Ground within 5 km

3,213 m – 4,748 m

Mean 4,114 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,535 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 47

among the towns of Arequipa, and 195th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

Alca

12.7 km to the SW, at 2,996 m, 535 m lower.

Cross-section through Puyca

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 Puyca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 4,833 m at 14 km west to 4,736 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 4,791 m at 14 km north to 5,024 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Puyca, 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 Puyca

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Alca	12.7 km	SW	2,996 m (9,829 ft)	−535 m
Huaynacotas	12.8 km	W	4,132 m (13,556 ft)	+601 m
Cotahuasi	27.7 km	SW	2,637 m (8,652 ft)	−894 m

Peaks and passes near Puyca

Nevado Firura, peak at 5,498 m (18,038 ft), 20.3 km to the S — 1,967 m above the town.
Nevado Sapojahuana, peak at 5,263 m (17,267 ft), 12 km to the S — 1,732 m above the town.
Cerro Saraccoto, peak at 5,209 m (17,090 ft), 24 km to the SW — 1,678 m above the town.

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

Where Puyca is

Latitude -15.06, longitude -72.69. 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 Puyca'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 3,659 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.