Elevation of Quirihue, Bío Bío, Chile

Quirihue, Bío Bío, Chile is 259 m (850 ft) above sea level.

Quirihue's height from sea level is 259 metres, or 850 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 231 m.

Ground within 5 km

177 m – 569 m

Mean 319 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 392 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 380th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Tres Esquinas

15.9 km to the W, at 474 m, 215 m higher.

Cross-section through Quirihue

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Quirihue; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 281 m at 13 km west to 139 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 332 m at 13 km north to 94 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Quirihue, 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 Quirihue

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tres Esquinas	15.9 km	W	474 m (1,555 ft)	+215 m
Ninhue	17.6 km	SE	96 m (315 ft)	−163 m
La Viñita	19.1 km	SW	52 m (171 ft)	−207 m
Treguaco	19.1 km	SW	129 m (423 ft)	−130 m
Coelemu	26.8 km	SW	17 m (56 ft)	−242 m

Where Quirihue is

Latitude -36.2833, longitude -72.5333. 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 Quirihue'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 262 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.