Elevation of Firgas, Canary Islands, Spain

Firgas, Canary Islands, Spain is 533 m (1,749 ft) above sea level.

Firgas's height from sea level is 533 metres, or 1,749 feet. GeoNames reads 510 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 500 m.

Ground within 5 km

11 m – 949 m

Mean 441 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 938 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 54

among the towns of Canary Islands, and 245th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the W, at 396 m, 137 m lower.

Cross-section through Firgas

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 Firgas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,651-123WE27.1 km
West to east: from 204 m at 14 km west to 137 m at 14 km east.
1,651-123NS27.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 1,528 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Firgas, 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 Firgas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Moya 2.1 kmW 396 m (1,299 ft) −137 m
Arucas 4 kmE 286 m (938 ft) −247 m
Teror 5.6 kmS 610 m (2,001 ft) +77 m
Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria 7.7 kmNW 222 m (728 ft) −311 m
Gáldar 9.4 kmNW 106 m (348 ft) −427 m

Peaks and passes near Firgas

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

Where Firgas is

Latitude 28.1076074, longitude -15.5633674. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Firgas elevation: 533 m (1,749 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 Firgas'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 510 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.