Elevation of Vara Gruesa, Maule, Chile

Vara Gruesa, Maule, Chile is 178 m (584 ft) above sea level.

Vara Gruesa's height from sea level is 178 metres, or 584 feet. GeoNames reads 178 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

151 m – 227 m

Mean 181 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 76 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

49th of 112

among the towns of Maule, and 504th of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the W, at 162 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Vara Gruesa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vara Gruesa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

440124WE26 km
West to east: from 146 m at 13 km west to 418 m at 13 km east.
440124NS26 km
North to south: from 195 m at 13 km north to 263 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Vara Gruesa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Vara Gruesa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Posada 5.8 kmW 162 m (531 ft) −16 m
Cinco Caminos 6.5 kmW 165 m (541 ft) −13 m
San Antonio 7.3 kmSW 194 m (636 ft) +16 m
Peñuelas 7.5 kmW 161 m (528 ft) −17 m
Maule Sur 7.5 kmW 157 m (515 ft) −21 m

Where Vara Gruesa is

Latitude -35.827113, longitude -71.501736. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vara Gruesa elevation: 178 m (584 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 Vara Gruesa'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 178 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.