Elevation of Penco, Bío Bío, Chile

Penco, Bío Bío, Chile is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Penco's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 24 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 115 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 388 m

Mean 128 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 388 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

90th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 755th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

El Rosal

5.8 km to the SW, at 36 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Penco

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Penco; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 9 m at 13 km west to 288 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 23 m at 13 km north to 288 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Penco, 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 Penco

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
El Rosal	5.8 km	SW	36 m (118 ft)	−16 m
Punta de Parra	6.8 km	N	140 m (459 ft)	+88 m
Quinchamalí	8.6 km	SW	28 m (92 ft)	−24 m
Las Arboledas	10.6 km	N	61 m (200 ft)	+9 m
Ranguelmo	11 km	SW	26 m (85 ft)	−26 m

Where Penco is

Latitude -36.7333, longitude -72.9833. 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 Penco'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 24 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.