Elevation of Collaguasi, Tarapacá, Chile

Collaguasi, Tarapacá, Chile is 4,754 m (15,597 ft) above sea level.

Collaguasi's height from sea level is 4,754 metres, or 15,597 feet. GeoNames reads 4,735 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

4,267 m – 4,956 m

Mean 4,639 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 689 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 15

among the towns of Tarapacá, and 1st of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

17.3 km to the W, at 4,237 m, 517 m lower.

Cross-section through Collaguasi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Collaguasi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

5,0224,077WE27.8 km
West to east: from 4,318 m at 14 km west to 4,143 m at 14 km east.
5,0224,077NS27.8 km
North to south: from 4,299 m at 14 km north to 4,350 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Collaguasi, 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 Collaguasi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Quebreda Blanca 17.3 kmW 4,237 m (13,901 ft) −517 m

Peaks and passes near Collaguasi

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Collaguasi is

Latitude -20.980802, longitude -68.683515. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Collaguasi elevation: 4,754 m (15,597 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 Collaguasi'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 4,735 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.