Elevation of Puerto Gaitán, Meta, Colombia

Puerto Gaitán, Meta, Colombia is 146 m (479 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Gaitán's height from sea level is 146 metres, or 479 feet. GeoNames reads 160 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 144 m.

Ground within 5 km

145 m – 214 m

Mean 165 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 28

among the towns of Meta, and 765th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Cross-section through Puerto Gaitán

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 Gaitán; the vertical scale is the same on both.

213138WE28.7 km
West to east: from 167 m at 14 km west to 182 m at 14 km east.
213138NS28.7 km
North to south: from 149 m at 14 km north to 176 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Gaitán, 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 Gaitán is

Latitude 4.310873, longitude -72.073758. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Puerto Gaitán elevation: 146 m (479 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 Gaitán'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 160 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.