Elevation of Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia is 976 m (3,202 ft) above sea level.

Buga's height from sea level is 976 metres, or 3,202 feet. GeoNames reads 979 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 969 m.

Also written: Guadalajara de Buga.

Ground within 5 km

933 m – 1,479 m

Mean 1,025 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 546 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 42

among the towns of Valle del Cauca, and 524th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

10 km to the W, at 973 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Buga

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,874860WE28.7 km
West to east: from 1,429 m at 14 km west to 1,804 m at 14 km east.
1,874860NS28.7 km
North to south: from 930 m at 14 km north to 1,011 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Buga, 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 Buga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yotoco 10 kmW 973 m (3,192 ft) −3 m
San Pedro 13.6 kmNE 978 m (3,209 ft) +2 m
Guacarí 15.3 kmS 976 m (3,202 ft) same
Ginebra 19.2 kmS 1,033 m (3,389 ft) +57 m
Darién 22.2 kmW 1,583 m (5,194 ft) +607 m

Where Buga is

Latitude 3.9, longitude -76.3. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Buga elevation: 976 m (3,202 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 Buga'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 979 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.