Elevation of Balboa, Cauca, Colombia

Balboa, Cauca, Colombia is 1,872 m (6,142 ft) above sea level.

Balboa's height from sea level is 1,872 metres, or 6,142 feet. GeoNames reads 1,616 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,200 m.

Ground within 5 km

734 m – 2,694 m

Mean 1,553 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,960 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 40

among the towns of Cauca, and 242nd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Leiva

15.4 km to the SW, at 1,479 m, 393 m lower.

Cross-section through Balboa

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 Balboa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,210 m at 14 km west to 573 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 3,018 m at 14 km north to 595 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Balboa, 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 Balboa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Leiva (Nariño)	15.4 km	SW	1,479 m (4,852 ft)	−393 m
Argelia	21.5 km	N	1,611 m (5,285 ft)	−261 m
El Bordo	28 km	E	964 m (3,163 ft)	−908 m
Mercaderes	29.1 km	S	1,120 m (3,675 ft)	−752 m
Sucre	35.3 km	E	1,385 m (4,544 ft)	−487 m

Where Balboa is

Latitude 2.0546669, longitude -77.233994. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Balboa'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 1,616 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.