Elevation of Colquechaca, Potosí, Bolivia

Colquechaca, Potosí, Bolivia is 4,202 m (13,786 ft) above sea level.

Colquechaca's height from sea level is 4,202 metres, or 13,786 feet. GeoNames reads 4,170 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 4,170 m.

Ground within 5 km

3,719 m – 4,780 m

Mean 4,280 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 1,061 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 53

among the towns of Potosí, and 17th of 665 in Bolivia.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the W, at 4,138 m, 64 m lower.

Cross-section through Colquechaca

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

4,8883,324WE28 km
West to east: from 3,502 m at 14 km west to 3,676 m at 14 km east.
4,8883,324NS28 km
North to south: from 3,432 m at 14 km north to 3,876 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Colquechaca, 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 Colquechaca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tirina 8.6 kmW 4,138 m (13,576 ft) −64 m
Macha 13.7 kmS 3,530 m (11,581 ft) −672 m
Pocoata 16.7 kmW 3,367 m (11,047 ft) −835 m
Ocurí 27 kmSE 4,030 m (13,222 ft) −172 m

Where Colquechaca is

Latitude -18.7003202, longitude -66.0039777. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Colquechaca elevation: 4,202 m (13,786 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 Colquechaca'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 4,170 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.