Elevation of Maitencillo, Atacama, Chile

Maitencillo, Atacama, Chile is 252 m (827 ft) above sea level.

Maitencillo's height from sea level is 252 metres, or 827 feet. GeoNames reads 250 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

199 m – 758 m

Mean 342 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 559 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 399th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Freirina

15.1 km to the W, at 155 m, 97 m lower.

Cross-section through Maitencillo

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

West to east: from 234 m at 14 km west to 693 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 483 m at 14 km north to 716 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Maitencillo, 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 Maitencillo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Freirina	15.1 km	W	155 m (509 ft)	−97 m
Vallenar	17.3 km	E	401 m (1,316 ft)	+149 m
Huasco Bajo	25.3 km	W	28 m (92 ft)	−224 m
Huasco	29.5 km	W	12 m (39 ft)	−240 m

Peaks and passes near Maitencillo

Cerro Arena, peak at 1,258 m (4,127 ft), 22.9 km to the SW — 1,006 m above the town.
Cerro Infiernillo, peak at 1,214 m (3,983 ft), 9 km to the NW — 962 m above the town.

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

Where Maitencillo is

Latitude -28.530802, longitude -70.926806. 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 Maitencillo'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 250 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.