Elevation of El Peñón, Coquimbo, Chile

El Peñón, Coquimbo, Chile is 218 m (715 ft) above sea level.

El Peñón's height from sea level is 218 metres, or 715 feet. GeoNames reads 173 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

119 m – 686 m

Mean 279 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 567 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

55th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 436th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Tambillos

8.5 km to the SW, at 223 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through El Peñón

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El Peñón; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 112 m at 13 km west to 1,200 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 184 m at 13 km north to 1,045 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around El Peñón, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Peñón

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tambillos	8.5 km	SW	223 m (732 ft)	+5 m
Cerrillos	9.7 km	N	121 m (397 ft)	−97 m
El Carmen	12.2 km	N	118 m (387 ft)	−100 m
Andacollito	16.7 km	SE	1,047 m (3,435 ft)	+829 m
Guachalalume	18.2 km	N	124 m (407 ft)	−94 m

Peaks and passes near El Peñón

Cerro del Toro, peak at 1,568 m (5,144 ft), 14.6 km to the SE — 1,350 m above the town.
Cerro La Mina de Oro, peak at 749 m (2,457 ft), 15.7 km to the NW — 531 m above the town.
Cerro Barrales, peak at 727 m (2,385 ft), 12.8 km to the SW — 509 m above the town.

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

Where El Peñón is

Latitude -30.137899, longitude -71.214705. 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 El Peñón'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 173 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.