Elevation of Chillán, Bío Bío, Chile

Chillán, Bío Bío, Chile is 126 m (413 ft) above sea level.

Chillán's height from sea level is 126 metres, or 413 feet. GeoNames reads 132 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 109 m.

Ground within 5 km

102 m – 150 m

Mean 124 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 48 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 605th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

2.2 km to the NW, at 123 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Chillán

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chillán; the vertical scale is the same on both.

20579WE25.9 km
West to east: from 88 m at 13 km west to 196 m at 13 km east.
20579NS25.9 km
North to south: from 129 m at 13 km north to 163 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Chillán, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 Chillán

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ribera de Ñuble 2.2 kmNW 123 m (404 ft) −3 m
Chillán Viejo 4 kmSW 107 m (351 ft) −19 m
El Guape 15.7 kmW 74 m (243 ft) −52 m
San Nicolás 15.9 kmNW 98 m (322 ft) −28 m
Las Mariposas 16.8 kmSW 103 m (338 ft) −23 m

Where Chillán is

Latitude -36.609354, longitude -72.102423. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

Chillán elevation: 126 m (413 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Chillán'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 132 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.