Elevation of Caracoles, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile

Caracoles, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile is 278 m (912 ft) above sea level.

Caracoles's height from sea level is 278 metres, or 912 feet. GeoNames reads 272 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

245 m – 629 m

Mean 308 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 384 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

69th of 144

among the towns of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, and 357th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Malloa

2 km to the S, at 266 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Caracoles

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Caracoles; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 210 m at 13 km west to 383 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 627 m at 13 km north to 318 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Caracoles, 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 Caracoles

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Malloa	2 km	S	266 m (873 ft)	−12 m
Santa Julia	3.5 km	NE	288 m (945 ft)	+10 m
Panquehue	3.5 km	N	284 m (932 ft)	+6 m
Limahue	4.2 km	S	259 m (850 ft)	−19 m
Corcolén	5.2 km	W	257 m (843 ft)	−21 m

Where Caracoles is

Latitude -34.424561, longitude -70.943379. 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 Caracoles'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 272 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.