Elevation of Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia

Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Maicao's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 52 m.

Ground within 5 km

33 m – 72 m

Mean 50 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 15

among the towns of La Guajira, and 853rd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Uribia

38.2 km to the N, at 22 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through Maicao

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 Maicao; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 67 m at 14 km west to 28 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 28 m at 14 km north to 91 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Maicao, 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 Maicao

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Uribia	38.2 km	N	22 m (72 ft)	−30 m

Where Maicao is

Latitude 11.3777778, longitude -72.2388889. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/44_479,Maicao,La+Guajira,Colombia"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/44_479.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Maicao elevation: 52 m (171 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Maicao'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 52 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.