Elevation of Samanco, Ancash, Peru

Samanco, Ancash, Peru is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Samanco's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 17 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 317 m

Mean 41 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 317 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 58

among the towns of Ancash, and 903rd of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

Nepeña

17.7 km to the NE, at 138 m, 126 m higher.

Cross-section through Samanco

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 Samanco; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 658 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 90 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Samanco, 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 Samanco

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Nepeña	17.7 km	NE	138 m (453 ft)	+126 m
Chimbote	24.2 km	NW	10 m (33 ft)	−2 m
Coishco	30.6 km	NW	47 m (154 ft)	+35 m
Santa	33.9 km	NW	25 m (82 ft)	+13 m
Casma	36.2 km	SE	190 m (623 ft)	+178 m

Peaks and passes near Samanco

Cerro Huambacho, peak at 833 m (2,733 ft), 17.1 km to the E — 821 m above the town.
Cerro Grande, peak at 580 m (1,903 ft), 13.6 km to the SE — 568 m above the town.
Cerro Boca de Sapo, peak at 526 m (1,726 ft), 17.1 km to the NE — 514 m above the town.

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

Where Samanco is

Latitude -9.26658, longitude -78.4894015. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Samanco'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 8 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.