Elevation of Rafael, Bío Bío, Chile

Rafael, Bío Bío, Chile is 200 m (656 ft) above sea level.

Rafael's height from sea level is 200 metres, or 656 feet. GeoNames reads 192 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 192 m.

Ground within 5 km

173 m – 370 m

Mean 248 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 197 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 462nd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

14.5 km to the W, at 61 m, 139 m lower.

Cross-section through Rafael

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rafael; the vertical scale is the same on both.

325154WE25.9 km
West to east: from 281 m at 13 km west to 277 m at 13 km east.
325154NS25.9 km
North to south: from 253 m at 13 km north to 185 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Rafael, 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 Rafael

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Las Arboledas 14.5 kmW 61 m (200 ft) −139 m
Tomé 15.4 kmW 48 m (157 ft) −152 m
Dichato 16 kmNW 25 m (82 ft) −175 m
Punta de Parra 17.2 kmW 140 m (459 ft) −60 m
Ránquil 17.2 kmE 82 m (269 ft) −118 m

Where Rafael is

Latitude -36.63092, longitude -72.788193. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rafael elevation: 200 m (656 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 Rafael'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 192 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.