Elevation of La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile

La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

La Serena's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 30 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 28 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 399 m

Mean 55 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 399 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

70th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 835th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

5 km to the S, at 94 m, 74 m higher.

Cross-section through La Serena

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 La Serena; the vertical scale is the same on both.

371-28WE26.8 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 343 m at 13 km east.
371-28NS26.8 km
North to south: from 123 m at 13 km north to 118 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around La Serena, 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 Serena

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Milagro 5 kmS 94 m (308 ft) +74 m
Ceres 5.5 kmSE 151 m (495 ft) +131 m
Islón 5.7 kmE 79 m (259 ft) +59 m
Guachalalume 7.8 kmS 124 m (407 ft) +104 m
El Rosario 8 kmSW 33 m (108 ft) +13 m

Peaks and passes near La Serena

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

Where La Serena is

Latitude -29.906301, longitude -71.250204. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Serena elevation: 20 m (66 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 Serena'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 30 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.