Elevation of Diego de Almagro, Atacama, Chile

Diego de Almagro, Atacama, Chile is 798 m (2,618 ft) above sea level.

Diego de Almagro's height from sea level is 798 metres, or 2,618 feet. GeoNames reads 792 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 787 m.

Ground within 5 km

731 m – 1,082 m

Mean 884 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 351 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 71st of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

27 km to the W, at 550 m, 248 m lower.

Cross-section through Diego de Almagro

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Diego de Almagro; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,306692WE27.3 km
West to east: from 742 m at 14 km west to 1,070 m at 14 km east.
1,306692NS27.3 km
North to south: from 982 m at 14 km north to 943 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Diego de Almagro, 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 Diego de Almagro

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Salado 27 kmW 550 m (1,804 ft) −248 m

Where Diego de Almagro is

Latitude -26.390249, longitude -70.04753. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Diego de Almagro elevation: 798 m (2,618 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 Diego de Almagro'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 792 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.