Elevation of Puerto Wilches, Santander, Colombia

Puerto Wilches, Santander, Colombia is 62 m (203 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Wilches's height from sea level is 62 metres, or 203 feet. GeoNames reads 67 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m.

Ground within 5 km

55 m – 88 m

Mean 65 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 33 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

57th of 57

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

Nearest town

9.2 km to the NW, at 58 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Puerto Wilches

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

28737WE28.6 km
West to east: from 269 m at 14 km west to 91 m at 14 km east.
28737NS28.6 km
North to south: from 60 m at 14 km north to 77 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Wilches, 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 Puerto Wilches

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cantagallo (Bolívar) 9.2 kmNW 58 m (190 ft) −4 m
Barrancabermeja 32 kmS 86 m (282 ft) +24 m
Yondó (Antioquia) 38.1 kmS 72 m (236 ft) +10 m

Where Puerto Wilches is

Latitude 7.35, longitude -73.9. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Puerto Wilches 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 Puerto Wilches'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 67 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.