Elevation of Salamanca, Coquimbo, Chile

Salamanca, Coquimbo, Chile is 516 m (1,693 ft) above sea level.

Salamanca's height from sea level is 516 metres, or 1,693 feet. GeoNames reads 508 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 508 m.

Ground within 5 km

462 m – 1,424 m

Mean 722 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 962 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 170th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

5.4 km to the N, at 620 m, 104 m higher.

Cross-section through Salamanca

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Salamanca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,160272WE26.6 km
West to east: from 872 m at 13 km west to 2,029 m at 13 km east.
2,160272NS26.6 km
North to south: from 1,352 m at 13 km north to 793 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Salamanca, 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 Salamanca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Arboleda Grande 5.4 kmN 620 m (2,034 ft) +104 m
El Tambo 5.9 kmW 443 m (1,453 ft) −73 m
San Agustín 14.1 kmNE 1,140 m (3,740 ft) +624 m
Caimanes 23.3 kmSW 458 m (1,503 ft) −58 m
Chillepín 23.8 kmSE 952 m (3,123 ft) +436 m

Peaks and passes near Salamanca

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Salamanca is

Latitude -31.782493, longitude -70.960711. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Salamanca elevation: 516 m (1,693 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 Salamanca'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 508 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.