Elevation of Carén, Coquimbo, Chile

Carén, Coquimbo, Chile is 740 m (2,428 ft) above sea level.

Carén's height from sea level is 740 metres, or 2,428 feet. GeoNames reads 712 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

659 m – 1,943 m

Mean 1,097 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 1,284 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 75

among the towns of Coquimbo, and 78th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Las Mollacas

14.1 km to the NE, at 1,250 m, 510 m higher.

Cross-section through Carén

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 Carén; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,227 m at 13 km west to 1,729 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 885 m at 13 km north to 1,337 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Carén, 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 Carén

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Las Mollacas	14.1 km	NE	1,250 m (4,101 ft)	+510 m
Rapel	14.2 km	N	915 m (3,002 ft)	+175 m
Cerrillos de Rapel	17.5 km	N	728 m (2,388 ft)	−12 m
Tulahuén	18.7 km	S	1,392 m (4,567 ft)	+652 m
El Palqui	19 km	NW	419 m (1,375 ft)	−321 m

Where Carén is

Latitude -30.851203, longitude -70.769691. 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 Carén'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 712 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.