Elevation of El Principal, Metropolitana, Chile

El Principal, Metropolitana, Chile is 684 m (2,244 ft) above sea level.

El Principal's height from sea level is 684 metres, or 2,244 feet. GeoNames reads 701 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

648 m – 1,601 m

Mean 734 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 953 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 120

among the towns of Metropolitana, and 90th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the W, at 681 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through El Principal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El Principal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,030432WE26.3 km
West to east: from 543 m at 13 km west to 1,919 m at 13 km east.
2,030432NS26.3 km
North to south: from 671 m at 13 km north to 820 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around El Principal, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Principal

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lo Arcaya 4.6 kmW 681 m (2,234 ft) −3 m
La Esperanza 6.1 kmNE 723 m (2,372 ft) +39 m
Pirque 8 kmN 725 m (2,379 ft) +41 m
Bajos de San Agustín 8.6 kmN 675 m (2,215 ft) −9 m
Puente Alto 9.4 kmN 703 m (2,306 ft) +19 m

Where El Principal is

Latitude -33.7, longitude -70.57. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Principal elevation: 684 m (2,244 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 Principal'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 701 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.