Elevation of Villa Rica, Cauca, Colombia

Villa Rica, Cauca, Colombia is 1,680 m (5,512 ft) above sea level.

Villa Rica's height from sea level is 1,680 metres, or 5,512 feet. GeoNames reads 1,737 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 970 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,587 m – 2,039 m

Mean 1,748 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 452 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 40

among the towns of Cauca, and 307th of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

El Tambo

9.4 km to the SE, at 1,695 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Villa Rica

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 Villa Rica; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,636 m at 14 km west to 1,566 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,848 m at 14 km north to 1,306 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Villa Rica, 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 Villa Rica

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
El Tambo	9.4 km	SE	1,695 m (5,561 ft)	+15 m
López	10.5 km	SE	1,704 m (5,591 ft)	+24 m
Timbío	24.3 km	SE	1,797 m (5,896 ft)	+117 m
Popayán	26.8 km	E	1,725 m (5,659 ft)	+45 m
Cajibío	27.7 km	NE	1,732 m (5,682 ft)	+52 m

Where Villa Rica is

Latitude 2.51, longitude -76.85. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Villa Rica'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 1,737 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.