Elevation of La Chimba, Coquimbo, Chile

La Chimba, Coquimbo, Chile is 280 m (919 ft) above sea level.

La Chimba's height from sea level is 280 metres, or 919 feet. GeoNames reads 202 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

159 m – 745 m

Mean 299 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 586 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

46th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 353rd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

4.5 km to the NW, at 245 m, 35 m lower.

Cross-section through La Chimba

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Chimba; the vertical scale is the same on both.

653140WE26.7 km
West to east: from 255 m at 13 km west to 294 m at 13 km east.
653140NS26.7 km
North to south: from 288 m at 13 km north to 448 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around La Chimba, 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 La Chimba

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Limarí 4.5 kmNW 245 m (804 ft) −35 m
Ovalle 6.8 kmNE 277 m (909 ft) −3 m
Guamalata 10.7 kmNE 302 m (991 ft) +22 m
Sotaquí 11.7 kmE 270 m (886 ft) −10 m
Villaseca 12.6 kmNE 306 m (1,004 ft) +26 m

Peaks and passes near La Chimba

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

Where La Chimba is

Latitude -30.650169, longitude -71.238795. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Chimba elevation: 280 m (919 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 La Chimba'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 202 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.