Elevation of Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia

Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia is 187 m (614 ft) above sea level.

Fonseca's height from sea level is 187 metres, or 614 feet.

Ground within 5 km

166 m – 274 m

Mean 198 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 108 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 15

among the towns of La Guajira, and 732nd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Distracción

9.2 km to the NW, at 197 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Fonseca

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 Fonseca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 284 m at 14 km west to 1,271 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 198 m at 14 km north to 316 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fonseca, 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 Fonseca

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Distracción	9.2 km	NW	197 m (646 ft)	+10 m
San Juan del César	18.6 km	W	219 m (719 ft)	+32 m
Barrancas	20.6 km	NE	127 m (417 ft)	−60 m
El Molino	22.3 km	SW	256 m (840 ft)	+69 m
Hatonuevo	27.5 km	N	210 m (689 ft)	+23 m

Where Fonseca is

Latitude 10.8333333, longitude -72.8333333. 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 Fonseca'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.