Elevation of Cataricahua, Oruro, Bolivia

Cataricahua, Oruro, Bolivia is 4,378 m (14,364 ft) above sea level.

Cataricahua's height from sea level is 4,378 metres, or 14,364 feet. GeoNames reads 4,321 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

3,998 m – 4,590 m

Mean 4,355 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 592 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 32

among the towns of Oruro, and 7th of 665 in Bolivia.

Nearest town

6.7 km to the S, at 3,965 m, 413 m lower.

Cross-section through Cataricahua

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cataricahua; the vertical scale is the same on both.

4,6503,771WE28 km
West to east: from 3,844 m at 14 km west to 4,323 m at 14 km east.
4,6503,771NS28 km
North to south: from 4,490 m at 14 km north to 4,371 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Cataricahua, 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 Cataricahua

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Huanuni 6.7 kmS 3,965 m (13,009 ft) −413 m
Machacamarca 22.5 kmW 3,725 m (12,221 ft) −653 m
Poopó 22.7 kmSW 3,796 m (12,454 ft) −582 m
Llallagua (Potosí) 32 kmSE 3,798 m (12,461 ft) −580 m
Totoral 32.4 kmS 4,088 m (13,412 ft) −290 m

Where Cataricahua is

Latitude -18.2333329, longitude -66.816667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cataricahua elevation: 4,378 m (14,364 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 Cataricahua'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 4,321 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.