Elevation of Rapel, Coquimbo, Chile

Rapel, Coquimbo, Chile is 915 m (3,002 ft) above sea level.

Rapel's height from sea level is 915 metres, or 3,002 feet. GeoNames reads 862 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

729 m – 2,123 m

Mean 1,269 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 1,394 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 54th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Cerrillos de Rapel

6.4 km to the W, at 728 m, 187 m lower.

Cross-section through Rapel

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rapel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 743 m at 13 km west to 1,971 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,931 m at 13 km north to 712 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Rapel, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Rapel

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cerrillos de Rapel	6.4 km	W	728 m (2,388 ft)	−187 m
Las Mollacas	8.9 km	E	1,250 m (4,101 ft)	+335 m
Carén	14.2 km	S	740 m (2,428 ft)	−175 m
El Palqui	17.8 km	W	419 m (1,375 ft)	−496 m
Monte Patria	18.4 km	W	421 m (1,381 ft)	−494 m

Where Rapel is

Latitude -30.723894, longitude -70.768192. 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 Rapel'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 862 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.