Elevation of Placilla, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile

Placilla, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile is 255 m (837 ft) above sea level.

Placilla's height from sea level is 255 metres, or 837 feet. GeoNames reads 257 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 271 m.

Ground within 5 km

233 m – 903 m

Mean 342 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 670 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

84th of 144

among the towns of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, and 393rd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

3.6 km to the N, at 266 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Placilla

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Placilla; the vertical scale is the same on both.

974167WE26.2 km
West to east: from 344 m at 13 km west to 372 m at 13 km east.
974167NS26.2 km
North to south: from 313 m at 13 km north to 257 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Placilla, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Placilla

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lo Moscoso 3.6 kmN 266 m (873 ft) +11 m
Rinconada de Manantiales 3.8 kmE 277 m (909 ft) +22 m
La Cuesta 5.4 kmSE 347 m (1,138 ft) +92 m
Nancagua 8.1 kmW 219 m (719 ft) −36 m
Chimbarongo 10.5 kmSE 313 m (1,027 ft) +58 m

Where Placilla is

Latitude -34.633795, longitude -71.110827. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Placilla elevation: 255 m (837 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 Placilla'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 257 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.