Elevation of Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia

Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Santa Marta's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 12 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 423 m

Mean 83 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 423 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 30

among the towns of Magdalena, and 868th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

28 km to the S, at 5 m, 33 m lower.

Cross-section through Santa Marta

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 Santa Marta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

786-59WE28.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 521 m at 14 km east.
786-59NS28.5 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 581 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Santa Marta, 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 Santa Marta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ciénaga 28 kmS 5 m (16 ft) −33 m
Puebloviejo 34.6 kmSW 0 m (0 ft) −38 m

Where Santa Marta is

Latitude 11.24959, longitude -74.18145. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Santa Marta elevation: 38 m (125 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 Santa Marta'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 14 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.