Elevation of Petorca, Valparaíso, Chile

Petorca, Valparaíso, Chile is 630 m (2,067 ft) above sea level.

Petorca's height from sea level is 630 metres, or 2,067 feet. GeoNames reads 506 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 495 m.

Ground within 5 km

471 m – 1,706 m

Mean 904 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 1,235 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 109

among the towns of Valparaíso, and 110th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

7.5 km to the S, at 1,051 m, 421 m higher.

Cross-section through Petorca

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Petorca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,070405WE26.5 km
West to east: from 1,174 m at 13 km west to 911 m at 13 km east.
2,070405NS26.5 km
North to south: from 1,794 m at 13 km north to 1,036 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Petorca, 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 Petorca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Ñipa 7.5 kmS 1,051 m (3,448 ft) +421 m
Hierro Viejo 8.7 kmSW 413 m (1,355 ft) −217 m
Chincolco 9.8 kmE 661 m (2,169 ft) +31 m
Pedegua 14.3 kmSW 317 m (1,040 ft) −313 m
Paihuén 15.2 kmSE 526 m (1,726 ft) −104 m

Where Petorca is

Latitude -32.25, longitude -70.9333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Petorca elevation: 630 m (2,067 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 Petorca'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 506 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.