Elevation of Fortul, Arauca, Colombia

Fortul, Arauca, Colombia is 241 m (791 ft) above sea level.

Fortul's height from sea level is 241 metres, or 791 feet. GeoNames reads 241 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 262 m.

Ground within 5 km

211 m – 317 m

Mean 242 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 106 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 7

among the towns of Arauca, and 697th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

22 km to the NW, at 222 m, 19 m lower.

Cross-section through Fortul

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 Fortul; the vertical scale is the same on both.

735150WE28.7 km
West to east: from 694 m at 14 km west to 208 m at 14 km east.
735150NS28.7 km
North to south: from 191 m at 14 km north to 312 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fortul, 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 Fortul

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saravena 22 kmNW 222 m (728 ft) −19 m
Tame 37.3 kmS 317 m (1,040 ft) +76 m

Where Fortul is

Latitude 6.79222, longitude -71.7756. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fortul elevation: 241 m (791 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 Fortul'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 241 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.