Elevation of San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize is 89 m (292 ft) above sea level.

San Ignacio's height from sea level is 89 metres, or 292 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 76 m.

Also written: Santa Elena Cayo.

Ground within 5 km

55 m – 220 m

Mean 107 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 165 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Cayo, and 2nd of 9 in Belize.

Nearest town

Benque Viejo

11.1 km to the SW, at 125 m, 36 m higher.

Cross-section through San Ignacio

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Ignacio; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 231 m at 14 km west to 73 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 141 m at 14 km north to 341 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around San Ignacio, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 San Ignacio

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Benque Viejo	11.1 km	SW	125 m (410 ft)	+36 m
Melchor de Mencos (Guatemala)	12.1 km	SW	103 m (338 ft)	+14 m
Belmopan	35 km	E	70 m (230 ft)	−19 m

Where San Ignacio is

Latitude 17.1522786, longitude -89.0800227. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at San Ignacio'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 60 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.