Elevation of Distracción, La Guajira, Colombia

Distracción, La Guajira, Colombia is 197 m (646 ft) above sea level.

Distracción's height from sea level is 197 metres, or 646 feet. GeoNames reads 205 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 65 m.

Ground within 5 km

170 m – 685 m

Mean 235 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 515 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 15

among the towns of La Guajira, and 726th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Fonseca

9.2 km to the SE, at 187 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Distracción

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Distracción; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 339 m at 14 km west to 267 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 830 m at 14 km north to 211 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Distracción, 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 Distracción

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Fonseca	9.2 km	SE	187 m (614 ft)	−10 m
San Juan del César	17.8 km	SW	219 m (719 ft)	+22 m
Barrancas	18.3 km	NE	127 m (417 ft)	−70 m
Hatonuevo	22.9 km	NE	210 m (689 ft)	+13 m
El Molino	27.8 km	S	256 m (840 ft)	+59 m

Where Distracción is

Latitude 10.9, longitude -72.8833333. 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 Distracción'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 205 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.