Elevation of Tierra Amarilla, Atacama, Chile

Tierra Amarilla, Atacama, Chile is 510 m (1,673 ft) above sea level.

Tierra Amarilla's height from sea level is 510 metres, or 1,673 feet. GeoNames reads 501 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 497 m.

Ground within 5 km

456 m – 1,080 m

Mean 712 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 624 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 176th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

12.6 km to the NW, at 390 m, 120 m lower.

Cross-section through Tierra Amarilla

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tierra Amarilla; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,217399WE27.1 km
West to east: from 950 m at 14 km west to 1,160 m at 14 km east.
1,217399NS27.1 km
North to south: from 864 m at 14 km north to 863 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Tierra Amarilla, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Tierra Amarilla

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Vicuña Mackenna 12.6 kmNW 390 m (1,280 ft) −120 m
Copiapó 13 kmNW 389 m (1,276 ft) −121 m
Loreto 13 kmNW 410 m (1,345 ft) −100 m

Where Tierra Amarilla is

Latitude -27.467171, longitude -70.26522. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tierra Amarilla elevation: 510 m (1,673 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 Tierra Amarilla'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 501 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.