Elevation of Huasco Bajo, Atacama, Chile

Huasco Bajo, Atacama, Chile is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Huasco Bajo's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 554 m

Mean 151 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 554 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 804th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Huasco

4.2 km to the W, at 12 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Huasco Bajo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Huasco Bajo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 372 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 617 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Huasco Bajo, 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 Huasco Bajo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Huasco	4.2 km	W	12 m (39 ft)	−16 m
Freirina	10.5 km	SE	155 m (509 ft)	+127 m
Maitencillo	25.3 km	E	252 m (827 ft)	+224 m

Peaks and passes near Huasco Bajo

Cerro Arena, peak at 1,258 m (4,127 ft), 16.6 km to the S — 1,230 m above the town.
Cerro Infiernillo, peak at 1,214 m (3,983 ft), 20.9 km to the E — 1,186 m above the town.

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

Where Huasco Bajo is

Latitude -28.472195, longitude -71.176806. 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 Huasco Bajo'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 21 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.