Elevation of Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Arraial do Cabo's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m to 8 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 287 m

Mean 12 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 287 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

36th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 882nd of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

9.8 km to the N, at 10 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Arraial do Cabo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Arraial do Cabo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

73-6WE27.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
73-6NS27.6 km
North to south: from 26 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Arraial do Cabo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 Arraial do Cabo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cabo Frio 9.8 kmN 10 m (33 ft) −7 m
São Pedro da Aldeia 16.3 kmNW 7 m (23 ft) −10 m
Iguaba Grande 24.3 kmNW 6 m (20 ft) −11 m
Armação dos Búzios 28.6 kmNE 29 m (95 ft) +12 m
Araruama 33.3 kmW 4 m (13 ft) −13 m

Where Arraial do Cabo is

Latitude -22.9659887, longitude -42.028832. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Arraial do Cabo elevation: 17 m (56 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 Arraial do Cabo'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 11 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.