Elevation of San Nicolás, Bío Bío, Chile

San Nicolás, Bío Bío, Chile is 98 m (322 ft) above sea level.

San Nicolás's height from sea level is 98 metres, or 322 feet. GeoNames reads 98 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 75 m.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 172 m

Mean 110 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

68th of 123

among the towns of Bío Bío, and 662nd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

13 km to the SW, at 74 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through San Nicolás

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 Nicolás; the vertical scale is the same on both.

28168WE25.9 km
West to east: from 86 m at 13 km west to 134 m at 13 km east.
28168NS25.9 km
North to south: from 155 m at 13 km north to 98 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around San Nicolás, 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 Nicolás

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Guape 13 kmSW 74 m (243 ft) −24 m
Ribera de Ñuble 13.7 kmSE 123 m (404 ft) +25 m
Chillán 15.9 kmSE 126 m (413 ft) +28 m
Chillán Viejo 15.9 kmSE 107 m (351 ft) +9 m
Portezuelo 17.6 kmW 138 m (453 ft) +40 m

Where San Nicolás is

Latitude -36.5, longitude -72.2167. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Nicolás elevation: 98 m (322 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 San Nicolás'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 98 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.