Elevation of Puerto Carreño, Vichada, Colombia

Puerto Carreño, Vichada, Colombia is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Carreño's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 51 m.

Ground within 5 km

38 m – 62 m

Mean 48 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 4

among the towns of Vichada, and 847th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Cross-section through Puerto Carreño

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 Puerto Carreño; the vertical scale is the same on both.

8322WE28.7 km
West to east: from 50 m at 14 km west to 67 m at 14 km east.
8322NS28.7 km
North to south: from 63 m at 14 km north to 49 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Carreño, 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.

Where Puerto Carreño is

Latitude 6.1847649, longitude -67.488503. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Puerto Carreño elevation: 55 m (180 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 Puerto Carreño'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 16 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.