Elevation of Purén, Araucanía, Chile

Purén, Araucanía, Chile is 119 m (390 ft) above sea level.

Purén's height from sea level is 119 metres, or 390 feet. GeoNames reads 106 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 88 m to 152 m.

Ground within 5 km

82 m – 572 m

Mean 239 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 490 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 61

among the towns of Araucanía, and 619th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

13.1 km to the W, at 46 m, 73 m lower.

Cross-section through Purén

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Purén; the vertical scale is the same on both.

70124WE25.7 km
West to east: from 444 m at 13 km west to 71 m at 13 km east.
70124NS25.7 km
North to south: from 577 m at 13 km north to 592 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Purén, 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 Purén

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Contulmo (Bío Bío) 13.1 kmW 46 m (151 ft) −73 m
Capitán Pastene 19.9 kmSE 209 m (686 ft) +90 m
Lumaco 21.6 kmSE 64 m (210 ft) −55 m
Los Sauces 22.4 kmE 123 m (404 ft) +4 m
Cañete (Bío Bío) 36.9 kmNW 67 m (220 ft) −52 m

Where Purén is

Latitude -38.030284, longitude -73.081528. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Purén elevation: 119 m (390 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 Purén'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 106 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.