Elevation of Sancos, Ayacucho, Peru

Sancos, Ayacucho, Peru is 3,272 m (10,735 ft) above sea level.

Sancos's height from sea level is 3,272 metres, or 10,735 feet. GeoNames reads 3,277 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2,711 m – 3,452 m

Mean 3,208 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 741 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 54

among the towns of Ayacucho, and 309th of 929 in Peru.

Nearest town

24.9 km to the NE, at 3,337 m, 65 m higher.

Cross-section through Sancos

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 Sancos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,9541,340WE28.3 km
West to east: from 3,062 m at 14 km west to 3,144 m at 14 km east.
3,9541,340NS28.3 km
North to south: from 3,773 m at 14 km north to 1,521 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Sancos, 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 Sancos

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chaviña 24.9 kmNE 3,337 m (10,948 ft) +65 m
Coracora 29.8 kmE 3,233 m (10,607 ft) −39 m
Chumpi 31.8 kmE 3,041 m (9,977 ft) −231 m
Tambo 34.1 kmNE 4,153 m (13,625 ft) +881 m
San Pedro 34.6 kmN 3,142 m (10,308 ft) −130 m

Peaks and passes near Sancos

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

Where Sancos is

Latitude -15.08, longitude -74.05. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sancos elevation: 3,272 m (10,735 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 Sancos'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 3,277 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.