Elevation of El Carmen, Santander, Colombia

El Carmen, Santander, Colombia is 715 m (2,346 ft) above sea level.

El Carmen's height from sea level is 715 metres, or 2,346 feet. GeoNames reads 775 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,160 m.

Also written: El Carmen de Chucurí.

Ground within 5 km

294 m – 1,640 m

Mean 808 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,346 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 57

among the towns of Santander, and 583rd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

23.1 km to the NE, at 669 m, 46 m lower.

Cross-section through El Carmen

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 El Carmen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,98590WE28.7 km
West to east: from 362 m at 14 km west to 2,785 m at 14 km east.
2,98590NS28.7 km
North to south: from 676 m at 14 km north to 1,531 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around El Carmen, 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 El Carmen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Vicente de Chucurí 23.1 kmNE 669 m (2,195 ft) −46 m
Galán 23.3 kmE 981 m (3,219 ft) +266 m
Hato 23.4 kmSE 1,902 m (6,240 ft) +1,187 m
Zapatoca 28.8 kmNE 1,544 m (5,066 ft) +829 m
Barichara 31.5 kmE 1,141 m (3,743 ft) +426 m

Where El Carmen is

Latitude 6.69806, longitude -73.5111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Carmen elevation: 715 m (2,346 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 El Carmen'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 775 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.