Elevation of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is 460 m (1,509 ft) above sea level.

Cruz Alta's height from sea level is 460 metres, or 1,509 feet. GeoNames reads 475 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 452 m to 475 m.

Ground within 5 km

397 m – 469 m

Mean 437 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 72 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 74

among the towns of Rio Grande do Sul, and 447th of 997 in Brazil.

Cross-section through Cruz Alta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cruz Alta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

476376WE27 km
West to east: from 417 m at 14 km west to 404 m at 14 km east.
476376NS27 km
North to south: from 404 m at 14 km north to 406 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Cruz Alta, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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.

Where Cruz Alta is

Latitude -28.6394371, longitude -53.6061695. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cruz Alta elevation: 460 m (1,509 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 Cruz Alta'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 475 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.