Elevation of San Carlos, Maldonado, Uruguay

San Carlos, Maldonado, Uruguay is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

San Carlos's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 28 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 24 m.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 58 m

Mean 17 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 56 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 10

among the towns of Maldonado, and 151st of 172 in Uruguay.

Nearest town

Barrio Hipódromo

7.7 km to the S, at 15 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through San Carlos

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Carlos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 4 m at 13 km west to 35 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 55 m at 13 km north to 28 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around San Carlos, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Carlos

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Barrio Hipódromo	7.7 km	S	15 m (49 ft)	+3 m
Cerro Pelado	11.2 km	SW	37 m (121 ft)	+25 m
Maldonado	11.9 km	S	23 m (75 ft)	+11 m
Pinares-Las Delicias	11.9 km	S	23 m (75 ft)	+11 m
San Rafael-El Placer	13.2 km	S	7 m (23 ft)	−5 m

Where San Carlos is

Latitude -34.797489, longitude -54.912281. 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 San Carlos'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 28 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.