Elevation of Zapatoca, Santander, Colombia

Zapatoca, Santander, Colombia is 1,544 m (5,066 ft) above sea level.

Zapatoca's height from sea level is 1,544 metres, or 5,066 feet. GeoNames reads 1,696 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,720 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,081 m – 2,662 m

Mean 1,820 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,581 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 57

among the towns of Santander, and 351st of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

9.8 km to the N, at 1,921 m, 377 m higher.

Cross-section through Zapatoca

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 Zapatoca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,685302WE28.7 km
West to east: from 1,548 m at 14 km west to 1,100 m at 14 km east.
2,685302NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,300 m at 14 km north to 686 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Zapatoca, 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 Zapatoca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Betulia 9.8 kmN 1,921 m (6,302 ft) +377 m
Galán 13.2 kmS 981 m (3,219 ft) −563 m
San Vicente de Chucurí 16.8 kmNW 669 m (2,195 ft) −875 m
Villanueva 19.5 kmSE 1,481 m (4,859 ft) −63 m
Barichara 21 kmS 1,141 m (3,743 ft) −403 m

Where Zapatoca is

Latitude 6.816983, longitude -73.279579. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Zapatoca elevation: 1,544 m (5,066 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 Zapatoca'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 1,696 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.