Elevation of Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela

Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela is 992 m (3,255 ft) above sea level.

Caracas's height from sea level is 992 metres, or 3,255 feet. Wikidata records 920 m.

Ground within 5 km

510 m – 1,637 m

Mean 1,020 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,127 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 105

among the towns of Venezuela with a reading.

Nearest town

Chacao

10.5 km to the E, at 889 m, 103 m lower.

Cross-section through Caracas

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 Caracas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,203 m at 14 km west to 923 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 1,439 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Caracas, 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 Caracas

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chacao (Miranda)	10.5 km	E	889 m (2,917 ft)	−103 m
Maiquetía (Vargas)	11.1 km	N	2 m (7 ft)	−990 m
Baruta (Miranda)	11.2 km	SE	977 m (3,205 ft)	−15 m
La Guaira (Vargas)	11.2 km	N	10 m (33 ft)	−982 m
Los Dos Caminos (Miranda)	12.9 km	E	874 m (2,867 ft)	−118 m

Peaks and passes near Caracas

Pico Naiguatá, peak at 2,765 m (9,072 ft), 19.1 km to the E — 1,773 m above the town.
Cerro El Ávila, peak at 2,740 m (8,990 ft), 9.7 km to the NE — 1,748 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Caracas is

Latitude 10.5004352, longitude -66.9511459. 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 Caracas'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.