Elevation of Simacota, Santander, Colombia

Simacota, Santander, Colombia is 1,307 m (4,288 ft) above sea level.

Simacota's height from sea level is 1,307 metres, or 4,288 feet. GeoNames reads 1,057 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 899 m.

Ground within 5 km

704 m – 2,047 m

Mean 1,145 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,343 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 57

among the towns of Santander, and 424th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

7.6 km to the E, at 1,250 m, 57 m lower.

Cross-section through Simacota

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 Simacota; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,226552WE28.7 km
West to east: from 2,844 m at 14 km west to 1,756 m at 14 km east.
3,226552NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,700 m at 14 km north to 1,184 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Simacota, 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 Simacota

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Socorro 7.6 kmE 1,250 m (4,101 ft) −57 m
Palmar 9.9 kmNE 772 m (2,533 ft) −535 m
Chima 12.1 kmSW 1,282 m (4,206 ft) −25 m
Hato 14.8 kmN 1,902 m (6,240 ft) +595 m
Páramo 18.4 kmE 1,416 m (4,646 ft) +109 m

Where Simacota is

Latitude 6.45, longitude -73.3333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Simacota elevation: 1,307 m (4,288 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 Simacota'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 1,057 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.