Elevation of Point Fortín, Trinidad and Tobago

Point Fortín, Trinidad and Tobago is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Point Fortín's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 58 m

Mean 20 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 58 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 22

among the towns of Trinidad and Tobago with a reading.

Nearest town

19.3 km to the E, at 59 m, 43 m higher.

Cross-section through Point Fortín

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Point Fortín; the vertical scale is the same on both.

59-1WE28.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 33 m at 14 km east.
59-1NS28.5 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Point Fortín, 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 Point Fortín

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Siparia (Siparia) 19.3 kmE 59 m (194 ft) +43 m
Peñal (Peñal Débé) 25.3 kmE 19 m (62 ft) +3 m
Débé (Peñal Débé) 26.8 kmE 9 m (30 ft) −7 m
San Fernando (San Fernando) 28 kmNE 41 m (135 ft) +25 m
Marabella (Princes Town) 29.3 kmNE 11 m (36 ft) −5 m

Where Point Fortín is

Latitude 10.1612731, longitude -61.6830286. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Point Fortín elevation: 16 m (52 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 Point Fortín'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 12 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.