Elevation of Colonia, Uruguay

Colonia, Uruguay is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Colonia's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. Wikidata records 27 m.

Also written: Colonia del Sacramento.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 47 m

Mean 16 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 10

among the towns of Colonia, and 140th of 172 in Uruguay.

Nearest town

Tarariras

26.7 km to the NE, at 101 m, 85 m higher.

Cross-section through Colonia

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 Colonia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 12 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 51 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Colonia, 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 Colonia

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tarariras	26.7 km	NE	101 m (331 ft)	+85 m
Juan Lacaze	32.3 km	E	10 m (33 ft)	−6 m

Where Colonia is

Latitude -34.44246, longitude -57.8140428. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/228_32,Colonia,Colonia,Uruguay"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/228_32.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Colonia elevation: 16 m (52 ft) above sea level"></a>

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 Colonia'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.