Elevation of La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay

La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

La Paz's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. GeoNames reads 57 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Ground within 5 km

25 m – 76 m

Mean 47 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 50

among the towns of Canelones, and 72nd of 172 in Uruguay.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the N, at 56 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through La Paz

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 La Paz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

78-6WE26.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 41 m at 13 km east.
78-6NS26.2 km
North to south: from 42 m at 13 km north to 2 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around La Paz, 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 La Paz

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Las Piedras 4.7 kmN 56 m (184 ft) +1 m
Villa San José 10 kmN 57 m (187 ft) +2 m
Progreso 10.3 kmN 53 m (174 ft) −2 m
Santiago Vázquez (Montevideo) 11.4 kmW 2 m (7 ft) −53 m
Delta del Tigre (San José) 12 kmW 4 m (13 ft) −51 m

Where La Paz is

Latitude -34.7568831, longitude -56.2314668. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Paz elevation: 55 m (180 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 La Paz'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 57 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.