Elevation of Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain

Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain is 286 m (938 ft) above sea level.

Arucas's height from sea level is 286 metres, or 938 feet. GeoNames reads 280 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 240 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 821 m

Mean 232 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 821 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 54

among the towns of Canary Islands, and 384th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

4 km to the W, at 533 m, 247 m higher.

Cross-section through Arucas

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Arucas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,009-75WE27.1 km
West to east: from 347 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
1,009-75NS27.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 822 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Arucas, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Arucas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Firgas 4 kmW 533 m (1,749 ft) +247 m
Moya 5.9 kmW 396 m (1,299 ft) +110 m
Teror 7 kmS 610 m (2,001 ft) +324 m
Las Palmas 9.3 kmE 37 m (121 ft) −249 m
Santa Brígida 10.4 kmS 611 m (2,005 ft) +325 m

Peaks and passes near Arucas

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

Where Arucas is

Latitude 28.1192657, longitude -15.5247354. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Arucas elevation: 286 m (938 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 Arucas'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 280 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.