Elevation of Copiapó, Atacama, Chile

Copiapó, Atacama, Chile is 389 m (1,276 ft) above sea level.

Copiapó's height from sea level is 389 metres, or 1,276 feet. GeoNames reads 381 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 383 m.

Ground within 5 km

344 m – 929 m

Mean 552 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 585 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 253rd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Vicuña Mackenna

0.5 km to the SE, at 390 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Copiapó

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Copiapó; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 591 m at 14 km west to 611 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 737 m at 14 km north to 1,036 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Copiapó, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Copiapó

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Vicuña Mackenna	0.5 km	SE	390 m (1,280 ft)	+1 m
Loreto	1.6 km	NE	410 m (1,345 ft)	+21 m
Tierra Amarilla	13 km	SE	510 m (1,673 ft)	+121 m

Where Copiapó is

Latitude -27.366359, longitude -70.332237. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Copiapó'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 381 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.