Elevation of Vigía del Fuerte, Antioquia, Colombia

Vigía del Fuerte, Antioquia, Colombia is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Vigía del Fuerte's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Ground within 5 km

5 m – 37 m

Mean 20 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

120th of 125

among the towns of Antioquia, and 923rd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

4 km to the S, at 37 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Vigía del Fuerte

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 Vigía del Fuerte; the vertical scale is the same on both.

897WE28.7 km
West to east: from 38 m at 14 km west to 82 m at 14 km east.
897NS28.7 km
North to south: from 21 m at 14 km north to 83 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Vigía del Fuerte, 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 Vigía del Fuerte

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bojayá (Chocó) 4 kmS 37 m (121 ft) +17 m
Atrato (Chocó) 38.5 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −11 m

Where Vigía del Fuerte is

Latitude 6.594016, longitude -76.89135. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vigía del Fuerte elevation: 20 m (66 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 Vigía del Fuerte'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 12 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.