Elevation of Sechura, Piura, Peru

Sechura, Piura, Peru is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Sechura's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 11 m.

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 20 m

Mean 8 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 47

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

Nearest town

Bernal

12.9 km to the NE, at 14 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Sechura

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sechura; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

North to south: from 34 m at 14 km north to 11 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sechura, 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 Sechura

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bernal	12.9 km	NE	14 m (46 ft)	+2 m
Vice	16.1 km	N	21 m (69 ft)	+9 m
Bellavista de la Union	16.7 km	NE	13 m (43 ft)	+1 m
La Unión	20.1 km	N	15 m (49 ft)	+3 m
El Tallan	22.3 km	NE	15 m (49 ft)	+3 m

Where Sechura is

Latitude -5.5589639, longitude -80.817108. 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 Sechura'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 15 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.