Elevation of Paraíba do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paraíba do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 304 m (997 ft) above sea level.

Paraíba do Sul's height from sea level is 304 metres, or 997 feet. GeoNames reads 323 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 275 m to 331 m.

Ground within 5 km

282 m – 496 m

Mean 366 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 214 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 544th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

9.9 km to the NE, at 277 m, 27 m lower.

Cross-section through Paraíba do Sul

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paraíba do Sul; the vertical scale is the same on both.

867245WE27.7 km
West to east: from 510 m at 14 km west to 288 m at 14 km east.
867245NS27.7 km
North to south: from 502 m at 14 km north to 824 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Paraíba do Sul, 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 Paraíba do Sul

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Três Rios 9.9 kmNE 277 m (909 ft) −27 m
Petrópolis 39.7 kmS 845 m (2,772 ft) +541 m

Where Paraíba do Sul is

Latitude -22.1629061, longitude -43.2932362. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paraíba do Sul elevation: 304 m (997 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 Paraíba do Sul'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 323 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.