Elevation of Várzea da Palma, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Várzea da Palma, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 506 m (1,660 ft) above sea level.

Várzea da Palma's height from sea level is 506 metres, or 1,660 feet. GeoNames reads 523 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 491 m to 519 m.

Ground within 5 km

489 m – 591 m

Mean 512 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 102 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

96th of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 411th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

34.1 km to the NW, at 522 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Várzea da Palma

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Várzea da Palma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

644474WE28.1 km
West to east: from 555 m at 14 km west to 610 m at 14 km east.
644474NS28.1 km
North to south: from 492 m at 14 km north to 536 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Várzea da Palma, 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 Várzea da Palma

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pirapora 34.1 kmNW 522 m (1,713 ft) +16 m
Buritizeiro 36.5 kmNW 537 m (1,762 ft) +31 m

Where Várzea da Palma is

Latitude -17.594574, longitude -44.7244677. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Várzea da Palma elevation: 506 m (1,660 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 Várzea da Palma'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 523 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.