Elevation of Providencia, Nariño, Colombia

Providencia, Nariño, Colombia is 1,031 m (3,383 ft) above sea level.

Providencia's height from sea level is 1,031 metres, or 3,383 feet. GeoNames reads 1,115 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

430 m – 1,928 m

Mean 1,030 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,498 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

49th of 61

among the towns of Nariño, and 498th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

6.7 km to the SW, at 1,349 m, 318 m higher.

Cross-section through Providencia

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Providencia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,737230WE28.8 km
West to east: from 3,297 m at 14 km west to 1,379 m at 14 km east.
3,737230NS28.8 km
North to south: from 910 m at 14 km north to 1,002 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Providencia, 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 Providencia

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Los Andes 6.7 kmSW 1,349 m (4,426 ft) +318 m
Policarpa 7.1 kmN 843 m (2,766 ft) −188 m
El Peñol 13.2 kmS 1,585 m (5,200 ft) +554 m
La Llanada 16.3 kmSW 2,474 m (8,117 ft) +1,443 m
Cumbitara 18.8 kmNW 1,991 m (6,532 ft) +960 m

Where Providencia is

Latitude 1.57, longitude -77.47. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Providencia elevation: 1,031 m (3,383 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 Providencia'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 1,115 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.