Elevation of Buesaco, Nariño, Colombia

Buesaco, Nariño, Colombia is 1,878 m (6,161 ft) above sea level.

Buesaco's height from sea level is 1,878 metres, or 6,161 feet. GeoNames reads 1,956 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,959 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,385 m – 2,794 m

Mean 1,967 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,409 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 61

among the towns of Nariño, and 237th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

10.9 km to the NE, at 1,982 m, 104 m higher.

Cross-section through Buesaco

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buesaco; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,1271,161WE28.8 km
West to east: from 1,854 m at 14 km west to 2,159 m at 14 km east.
3,1271,161NS28.8 km
North to south: from 2,127 m at 14 km north to 2,991 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Buesaco, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Buesaco

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Tablón 10.9 kmNE 1,982 m (6,503 ft) +104 m
Arboleda 14.7 kmNE 2,081 m (6,827 ft) +203 m
San Lorenzo 15.2 kmNW 1,994 m (6,542 ft) +116 m
Santacruz 18.1 kmNW 1,917 m (6,289 ft) +39 m
San Bernardo 19 kmNE 2,027 m (6,650 ft) +149 m

Peaks and passes near Buesaco

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Buesaco is

Latitude 1.385349, longitude -77.156158. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Buesaco elevation: 1,878 m (6,161 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 Buesaco'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 1,956 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.