Elevation of Laja, Bío Bío, Chile

Laja, Bío Bío, Chile is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Laja's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 49 m to 87 m.

Also written: La Laja.

Ground within 5 km

43 m – 225 m

Mean 109 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 182 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

94th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 761st of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

San Rosendo

1.1 km to the N, at 90 m, 42 m higher.

Cross-section through Laja

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Laja; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 186 m at 13 km west to 102 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 193 m at 13 km north to 290 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Laja, 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 Laja

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Rosendo	1.1 km	N	90 m (295 ft)	+42 m
Río Claro	11.9 km	NE	86 m (282 ft)	+38 m
Millantú	16.8 km	SE	89 m (292 ft)	+41 m
Santa Elena	20.2 km	SE	103 m (338 ft)	+55 m
Talcamávida	21 km	NW	89 m (292 ft)	+41 m

Where Laja is

Latitude -37.271425, longitude -72.719491. 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 Laja'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 60 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.