Elevation of La Unión, Sucre, Colombia

La Unión, Sucre, Colombia is 62 m (203 ft) above sea level.

La Unión's height from sea level is 62 metres, or 203 feet. GeoNames reads 63 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 48 m.

Ground within 5 km

31 m – 75 m

Mean 51 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 44 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 26

among the towns of Sucre, and 838th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

14.4 km to the SW, at 84 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through La Unión

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Unión; the vertical scale is the same on both.

10120WE28.6 km
West to east: from 95 m at 14 km west to 28 m at 14 km east.
10120NS28.6 km
North to south: from 54 m at 14 km north to 56 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Unión, 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 La Unión

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Caimito 14.4 kmSW 84 m (276 ft) +22 m
Sahagún (Córdoba) 19.1 kmNW 75 m (246 ft) +13 m
Buenavista 20.4 kmS 51 m (167 ft) −11 m
Chinú (Córdoba) 25.4 kmN 102 m (335 ft) +40 m
San Marcos 27.4 kmSE 25 m (82 ft) −37 m

Where La Unión is

Latitude 8.86056, longitude -75.2806. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Unión elevation: 62 m (203 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 La Unión'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 63 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.