Elevation of Portal del Inca, Atacama, Chile

Portal del Inca, Atacama, Chile is 2,361 m (7,746 ft) above sea level.

Portal del Inca's height from sea level is 2,361 metres, or 7,746 feet. GeoNames reads 2,353 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2,108 m – 3,094 m

Mean 2,442 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 986 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 13th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

5.6 km to the NW, at 2,248 m, 113 m lower.

Cross-section through Portal del Inca

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Portal del Inca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,0151,675WE27.3 km
West to east: from 1,768 m at 14 km west to 2,898 m at 14 km east.
3,0151,675NS27.3 km
North to south: from 2,526 m at 14 km north to 1,907 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Portal del Inca, 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 Portal del Inca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Salvador 5.6 kmNW 2,248 m (7,375 ft) −113 m

Where Portal del Inca is

Latitude -26.282451, longitude -69.588136. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Portal del Inca elevation: 2,361 m (7,746 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 Portal del Inca'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 2,353 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.