Elevation of El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca, Colombia is 990 m (3,248 ft) above sea level.

El Cerrito's height from sea level is 990 metres, or 3,248 feet. GeoNames reads 878 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 967 m.

Ground within 5 km

960 m – 1,035 m

Mean 993 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 75 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 42

among the towns of Valle del Cauca, and 518th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

6.3 km to the NE, at 1,033 m, 43 m higher.

Cross-section through El Cerrito

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 Cerrito; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,851877WE28.7 km
West to east: from 986 m at 14 km west to 1,677 m at 14 km east.
1,851877NS28.7 km
North to south: from 970 m at 14 km north to 1,001 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around El Cerrito, 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 Cerrito

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ginebra 6.3 kmNE 1,033 m (3,389 ft) +43 m
Guacarí 8.9 kmN 976 m (3,202 ft) −14 m
Palmira 13.6 kmSE 1,064 m (3,491 ft) +74 m
Vijes 15.6 kmW 1,023 m (3,356 ft) +33 m
Yotoco 21.3 kmN 973 m (3,192 ft) −17 m

Where El Cerrito is

Latitude 3.69, longitude -76.31. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Cerrito elevation: 990 m (3,248 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 Cerrito'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 878 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.