Elevation of Vicuña Mackenna, Atacama, Chile

Vicuña Mackenna, Atacama, Chile is 390 m (1,280 ft) above sea level.

Vicuña Mackenna's height from sea level is 390 metres, or 1,280 feet.

Ground within 5 km

344 m – 929 m

Mean 538 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 585 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 18

among the towns of Atacama, and 252nd of 900 in Chile.

Nearest town

Copiapó

0.5 km to the NW, at 389 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Vicuña Mackenna

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 Vicuña Mackenna; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 621 m at 14 km west to 689 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 750 m at 14 km north to 984 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Vicuña Mackenna, 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 Vicuña Mackenna

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Copiapó	0.5 km	NW	389 m (1,276 ft)	−1 m
Loreto	1.4 km	NE	410 m (1,345 ft)	+20 m
Tierra Amarilla	12.6 km	SE	510 m (1,673 ft)	+120 m

Where Vicuña Mackenna is

Latitude -27.3682656, longitude -70.3279856. 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 Vicuña Mackenna'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.