Elevation of San Sebastián, Magdalena, Colombia

San Sebastián, Magdalena, Colombia is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

San Sebastián's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: San Sebastián de Buenavista.

Ground within 5 km

12 m – 27 m

Mean 17 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 15 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 30

among the towns of Magdalena, and 936th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the NW, at 19 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through San Sebastián

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 San Sebastián; the vertical scale is the same on both.

53-8WE28.6 km
West to east: from 9 m at 14 km west to 20 m at 14 km east.
53-8NS28.6 km
North to south: from 28 m at 14 km north to 14 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Sebastián, 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 Sebastián

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Fernando (Bolívar) 4.7 kmNW 19 m (62 ft) +3 m
Mompós (Bolívar) 7.8 kmE 17 m (56 ft) +1 m
Talaigua (Bolívar) 9.6 kmNW 17 m (56 ft) +1 m
Pijiño 11.5 kmNE 12 m (39 ft) −4 m
Santa Ana 12 kmNW 25 m (82 ft) +9 m

Where San Sebastián is

Latitude 9.25, longitude -74.5. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Sebastián elevation: 16 m (52 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 Sebastián'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 15 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.