Elevation of Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia

Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia is 304 m (997 ft) above sea level.

Cúcuta's height from sea level is 304 metres, or 997 feet. GeoNames reads 298 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 320 m.

Also written: San José de Cúcuta.

Ground within 5 km

248 m – 440 m

Mean 325 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 192 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 36

among the towns of Norte de Santander, and 673rd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Los Patios

6.9 km to the S, at 381 m, 77 m higher.

Cross-section through Cúcuta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cúcuta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 270 m at 14 km west to 1,321 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 230 m at 14 km north to 539 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Cúcuta, 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 Cúcuta

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Los Patios	6.9 km	S	381 m (1,250 ft)	+77 m
Villa del Rosario	7.5 km	SE	423 m (1,388 ft)	+119 m
San Antonio del Táchira (Venezuela)	10.5 km	SE	414 m (1,358 ft)	+110 m
El Zulia	11.4 km	W	193 m (633 ft)	−111 m
San Cayetano	13.7 km	W	255 m (837 ft)	−49 m

Peaks and passes near Cúcuta

Cerro La Guacara, peak at 1,240 m (4,068 ft), 17.1 km to the SE — 936 m above the town.
Pico El Judío, peak at 1,010 m (3,314 ft), 13.9 km to the E — 706 m above the town.
Cerro Rangel, peak at 820 m (2,690 ft), 14.9 km to the SE — 516 m above the town.

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

Where Cúcuta is

Latitude 7.8941667, longitude -72.5038889. 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 Cúcuta'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 298 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.