Elevation of El Carmen, Bío Bío, Chile

El Carmen, Bío Bío, Chile is 239 m (784 ft) above sea level.

El Carmen's height from sea level is 239 metres, or 784 feet. GeoNames reads 246 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

202 m – 294 m

Mean 244 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 409th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

6.1 km to the W, at 200 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through El Carmen

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 El Carmen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

345147WE25.9 km
West to east: from 161 m at 13 km west to 331 m at 13 km east.
345147NS25.9 km
North to south: from 221 m at 13 km north to 274 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around El Carmen, 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 El Carmen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pueblo Seco 6.1 kmW 200 m (656 ft) −39 m
Quiriquina 8.7 kmNW 198 m (650 ft) −41 m
Pemuco 9.7 kmSW 215 m (705 ft) −24 m
San Miguel 10.4 kmNE 285 m (935 ft) +46 m
San Ignacio 11.1 kmN 230 m (755 ft) −9 m

Where El Carmen is

Latitude -36.9, longitude -72.03. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Carmen elevation: 239 m (784 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 El Carmen'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 246 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.