Elevation of Alto Hospicio, Tarapacá, Chile

Alto Hospicio, Tarapacá, Chile is 536 m (1,759 ft) above sea level.

Alto Hospicio's height from sea level is 536 metres, or 1,759 feet. GeoNames reads 544 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 951 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 854 m

Mean 415 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 854 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 15

among the towns of Tarapacá, and 152nd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the NW, at 19 m, 517 m lower.

Cross-section through Alto Hospicio

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alto Hospicio; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,258-94WE27.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 908 m at 14 km east.
1,258-94NS27.9 km
North to south: from 892 m at 14 km north to 1,117 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Alto Hospicio, 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 Alto Hospicio

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chanavayita 3.9 kmNW 19 m (62 ft) −517 m
Iquique 7 kmNW 23 m (75 ft) −513 m
Pozo Almonte 33.3 kmE 1,034 m (3,392 ft) +498 m

Where Alto Hospicio is

Latitude -20.268483, longitude -70.104711. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alto Hospicio elevation: 536 m (1,759 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 Alto Hospicio'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 544 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.