Elevation of San Carlos, Bío Bío, Chile

San Carlos, Bío Bío, Chile is 177 m (581 ft) above sea level.

San Carlos's height from sea level is 177 metres, or 581 feet. GeoNames reads 186 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 156 m to 161 m.

Ground within 5 km

157 m – 196 m

Mean 175 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 507th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Puente Ñuble

1.5 km to the NE, at 182 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through San Carlos

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 San Carlos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 136 m at 13 km west to 235 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 161 m at 13 km north to 167 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around San Carlos, 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 San Carlos

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Puente Ñuble	1.5 km	NE	182 m (597 ft)	+5 m
Juan Riquelme	1.8 km	NE	182 m (597 ft)	+5 m
Monte Blanco	7.5 km	SE	197 m (646 ft)	+20 m
Agua Buena	9.5 km	E	208 m (682 ft)	+31 m
El Sauce	12.6 km	E	241 m (791 ft)	+64 m

Where San Carlos is

Latitude -36.42615, longitude -71.970834. 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 San Carlos'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 186 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.