Elevation of Molugan, Northern Mindanao, Philippines

Molugan, Northern Mindanao, Philippines is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Molugan's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 5 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 118 m

Mean 19 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 118 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 51

among the towns of Northern Mindanao, and 913th of 989 in Philippines.

Nearest town

El Salvador

4.6 km to the W, at 107 m, 103 m higher.

Cross-section through Molugan

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 Molugan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 51 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 86 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Molugan, 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 Molugan

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
El Salvador	4.6 km	W	107 m (351 ft)	+103 m
Cagayan	12.2 km	SE	69 m (226 ft)	+65 m
Barra	12.9 km	E	0 m (0 ft)	−4 m
Lumbia	15.4 km	S	153 m (502 ft)	+149 m
Bugo	22.4 km	E	53 m (174 ft)	+49 m

Where Molugan is

Latitude 8.5360539, longitude 124.5586362. 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 Molugan'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 5 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.