Elevation of San Juan del César, La Guajira, Colombia

San Juan del César, La Guajira, Colombia is 219 m (719 ft) above sea level.

San Juan del César's height from sea level is 219 metres, or 719 feet. GeoNames reads 214 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 250 m.

Also written: San Juan del Cesar.

Ground within 5 km

189 m – 408 m

Mean 235 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 219 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 15

among the towns of La Guajira, and 711th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

16.6 km to the SE, at 256 m, 37 m higher.

Cross-section through San Juan del César

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Juan del César; the vertical scale is the same on both.

599155WE28.5 km
West to east: from 306 m at 14 km west to 207 m at 14 km east.
599155NS28.5 km
North to south: from 358 m at 14 km north to 188 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Juan del César, 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 San Juan del César

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Molino 16.6 kmSE 256 m (840 ft) +37 m
Distracción 17.8 kmNE 197 m (646 ft) −22 m
Fonseca 18.6 kmE 187 m (614 ft) −32 m
Villanueva 20.6 kmS 240 m (787 ft) +21 m
Urumita 24 kmS 213 m (699 ft) −6 m

Where San Juan del César is

Latitude 10.7847, longitude -72.996567. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Juan del César elevation: 219 m (719 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 San Juan del César'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 214 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.